On Saturday, February 16, 2002, at 05:18 PM, Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
Tom Bradford wrote:While CMS is a possible application for XML databases, I don't think that an XML database must serve as a CMS, nor that a CMS need be based on an XML database. Certainly, a WebDAV impl can be built that utilizes the XML:DB API, making content management an application of an XML database, but the two concepts shouldn't be merged.
Agreed. But going even forward, WebDAV!=CMS. Having a WebDAV implementation would just mean having another (very effective and easy) way to access content stored in an XML:DB database, which does not mean that this content has to be used in a CMS environment.
This is why I'd rather go the JNDI way: having a JNDI provider would allow to do lots of cool new things with and XML database, and WebDAV support would come for free.
I agree, since many operating systems have built in WebDAV support now, it'
s useful in all kinds of ways outside a CMS. It's a lot easier to insert a document by saying cp doc.xml /Volumes/xindice/collection/name then using the current command line tools. It gets even easier still when you just drag and drop an icon to do the same. Both Win 2000/XP and Mac OS X allow this, don't know about Linux.
I looked into a JNDI impl a while back and didn't see anything that was a real problem.
Ciao,
-- Gianugo Rabellino
Kimbro Staken XML Database Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
