Thanks for the suggestion. I agree that this sounds like a good, generic solution, without necessarily excluding the need for writing to the oxf protocol. WebDAV support probably won't make it into 2.0 though!
-Erik
Damon Rand wrote:
> Hi, > Just thought I would jump in re:serializers and platform independence > seeing I have been looking at this one as well.. > > It seems the best way to achieve platform independence for file manipulation > with oxf will be to read and write from/to an HTTP DAV filesystem using > GET/PUT rather than an ordinary file system. The DAV filesystem may be an > NTFS or UNIX filesystem mounted by Apache HTTPD. Or it may be a DAV > interface onto a relational or XML database such as with eXist or xIndice.. > Or onto a versioned filesystem such as Subversion.. > > http://exist-db.org/quickstart.html#N400368 > http://xml.apache.org/xindice/ > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/apds02.html#svn-app-d-sect2.3 > > I think this is the functionality that the URLSerializer in combination with > the URLGenerator will seek to address? > > If you need platform independence then this will be a better, more standard > option than a fileserializer though the performance may not be quite as > good. > > Damon. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Bruchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "OXF Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:21 PM > Subject: Re: file serializer question > > > >>Calvin, >> >>We'll try to include writing to the OXF protocol (and other protocols) in > > 2.0 > >>final. This will most likely be included in a new URL Serializer, that > > will be > >>the mirror of the URL Generator. >> >>-Erik >> >>Calvin Smith wrote: >> >> >>>Erik, >>> >>>Thanks for the response. Am I correct in assuming that the property for >>>the default base directory in the properties.xml file will accept the >>>oxf:/ protocol, like other properties in that file do? I hope so, >>>otherwise we still will have to change the properties file for every >>>different platform that we run on, which is not really acceptable given >>>that this is the only thing preventing cross-platform deployability now. >>> >>>-calvin >>> >>>Erik Bruchez wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Calvin, >>>> >>>>The new File Serializer supports a property that you can set in >>>>properties.xml to set the default base directory. This way you can use >>>>relative paths against that base directory. >>>> >>>>The beta is due REAL soon now, and will include the new File >>>>Serializer features. >>>> >>>>-Erik >>>> >>>>Calvin Smith wrote: >>>> > Does the new file serializer accept the oxf protocol, or a relative >>>>path? >>>> > >>>> > Is there any chance that the new file serializer class is available >>>> > before the upcoming (compete) release, so that we could just >>>>replace it >>>> > in the oxf jar and get that functionality now? We are doing a lot of >>>> > writing to files, and the present file serializer is inadequate for >>>>our >>>> > needs. >>>> > >>>> > -calvin >>>> > >>>> > Erik Bruchez wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> Hi Bob, >>>> >> >>>> >> This is not possible at this point, but the file serializer that > > will > >>>> >> come with OXF 2.0 will be fully configurable. For more information >>>> >> about the upcoming release, see: >>>> >> >>>> >> http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/upcoming-release >>>> >> >>>> >> We expect a preview release or 2.0 any time now. >>>> >> >>>> >> -Erik >>>> >> >>>> >> Bob Daly wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> > The oxf/processor/file-serializer seems to default to writing > > HTML > >>>> >> > documents. >>>> >> > >>>> >> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >>>> >> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> >>>> >> > >>>> >> > Is there a way to replace this doc header with <?xml > > version="1.0" > >>>> >> > encoding="UTF-8"?> ? >>>> >> > >>>> >> > thanks >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>> >> oxf-users mailing list >>>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >> http://mail.orbeon.com/mailman/listinfo/oxf-users >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > oxf-users mailing list >>>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> > http://mail.orbeon.com/mailman/listinfo/oxf-users >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>oxf-users mailing list >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>http://mail.orbeon.com/mailman/listinfo/oxf-users >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>oxf-users mailing list >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>http://mail.orbeon.com/mailman/listinfo/oxf-users >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>oxf-users mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mail.orbeon.com/mailman/listinfo/oxf-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > oxf-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.orbeon.com/mailman/listinfo/oxf-users
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