On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Dean Landolt wrote:
A collection in xquery terms is really nothing more than a tag with
a few
supporting APIs.
A collection is an XPath thing used in host languages, XSLT and XQuery
being most natural. It makes hierarchies easy.
What does it gives you that you can't get right out of the
box with couch?
- the ability to have a hierarchy without you having to explicitly
list/manage children in a parent document.
- the ability to narrow/limit the documents given to a map function
- more fine tuned GET, PUT and DELETE
Also, a GET request on a collection would return a kind of JSON
directory listing.
best,
-Rob
