On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 08:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a real world example of where node level access control is very useful. Say
you are implementing a document authoring / management system for a publisher of
scientific articles. You want staff writers and editors to have access to the body of
documents for tweaking the writing. But you want only your staff of domain and
classification experts to have access to certain metadata sections that classify and
correlate the documents to the proper scientific fields, topics, and specialized
taxonomies with will be used by researchers for searching. Perhaps only senior
editors should have access to change certain publication metadata. And only system
administrators should be able to touch the document's unique identifier once it's
been assigned.
Thanks, that's a good example and it makes sense.
As Stephano points out, you likely don't want to individually control every single node,
but you want to be able to choose nodes or sections to control, similar to the defining
of what in the document you want to index.
-- Eric Schwarzenbach
Kimbro Staken XML Database Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
