Williams, Timothy W. wrote:
Nope, not with the XML:DB API (though this information is actually
stored in Xindice, or at lease I've been told it is). I'm supposed to
come up with a generic metadata support, but I don't have a precide
timeframe for it. I could use some help... :-)
Have you settled on an approach to storing and accessing metadata yet?
--tim
While I was still at Sun, I wrote a metadata wrapper for Xindice
called "XNode" which has been submitted to the project. It's very
similar to a lightweight SOAP, ie., it's got an envelope, header
and body. The Java Web Services Pack has a demo application called
"Indri" that implements the XNode API. I'm using XNode (and of
course Xindice) as the means of storing content and metadata in my
current project. The delivered API has three metadata attributes:
node ID, creation and modification dates.
My understanding (from discussing this with Tom Bradford) is that
XNode didn't make it into 1.0 due to time considerations, but that
he didn't see any technical barriers to its inclusion in a future
version.
I'm actually in the process of making a minor change to the API to
make it easier to extend the metadata handling capability, which
I'll send on when it's available.
Murray
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Murray Altheim <mailto:m.altheim @ open.ac.uk>
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK
In the evening
The rice leaves in the garden
Rustle in the autumn wind
That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu
