On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 04:45 PM, Michael Gratton wrote:
Kurt Ward wrote: > I was thinking of a command line similar to MySQL, eliminating the > slow VM startup for each command.
I'd say that's an excellent idea, especially when doing interactive maintenance or developement work. However, I wouldn't want to lose the ability to use a "normal", non-interactive command line tool like we have at the moment. It should be possible to automate tasks from a script, eg,
stopping, backing up and starting Xindice using cron.
Having two different ways to do things would be very bad for usability. I' d think having the interpreter read a script would fulfill this need,
BTW, Kurt before going too deep into this, you might want to look at SiXDML http://www.sixdml.org. Don't let it scare you, it's really a simple language and most things should map pretty easily to the Xindice model. You'd need to create a interactive language anyway, so you may as well start there. What you're describing is what I'm expecting from a SixDML impl.
Dare made his Excelon impl available as open source and is supposed to be working on an impl for Xindice. I don't know how much time he has to work on it, but it's something that could be very useful to include. This can easily just be a veneer that sits on top of Xindice, it doesn't have to be tightly integrated into the engine. That's how the Excelon impl works now.
We can of course integrate things how ever is optimal, but just layering it over the XML:DB API is a simple place to start.
Some sort of "CLI framework" could probably be put together easily so you only have to write a command's implementation once, and it gets picked up automatically by both the interactive and non-interactive tools.
Mike.
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