On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:53:49 -0500, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Guggisberg wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:18:52 +0100, Felix R�thenbacher > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Tobias Strasser wrote: > >> > >>>well: "/*[local-name()='hugo' and > >>>namespace-uri()='http://foo.bar.org']" is not a valid path :-) > >>> > >> > >>I think the answer above is a little bit oversimplified. > >>AFAICS there is no support for xpath predicates when using > >>session.exportDocView(). Only an absolute path is allowed. > >>But maybe someone else knows better ... > > > > > > what makes you believe that you can use xpath predicates > > in a jcr path??? > > > > please, do your homework and read the spec before asking > > such basic questions. i guess that's not asked too much. > > > > here's a hint: see 4.6 Path Syntax > > Stefan, in case you didn't notice, here we are trying to build a > community, not just to implement a spec, and it's already hard without > you alienating people for how they interact with this project. > > If you feel annoyed by the lack of pro-activity on other people's side, > you are welcome not to reply and ignore them.
fair enough. although i think that people on the list should be encouraged to have at least a look at the api documentation before they ask a basic question about an api method in the development list i accept your advice and i'll let other people answer them. cheers stefan > > Do you know the Postel Principle? "be strict in what you send, be > forgiving in what you receive", this is how the internet can work in > practice, but it's a very useful thing, it helps in human collaborations > as well, especially in wide and across cultures ones, like this that we > are trying to build. > > Apache is about community, not code. You are one of the development > leaders of this project and for that reason, like it or not, you have a > responsibility: the responsibility of helping out in making sure that > our users and developers feel welcome even when they screw up, even when > they are lazy, even when they make silly (for you!) mistakes. > > A community of smart asses will not bloom: it go down in flames. Been > there, done that. I still have scars from Avalon that prove all that. We > had to kill it before its cancer grew in other sides of the foundation. > > The last thing I want is this project to fail incubation for community > reasons and there will be no way to attract external committers if they > won't feel welcome. > > Ah, one last thing, when you write an email, remember that this is a > very public forum and that these messages are archived in many different > places, which means that they won't go away. Think about emails that you > wrote 10 years ago and think about how these will feel 10 years for now. > > Food for thought. > > -- > Stefano. > >
