Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
>
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
> >
> > I agree that since Xindice has namespace support, most application level
> > metadata can be stored without Xindice knowing about it, but there is
> > some that simply cannot, without a serious and complex wrapper around
> > Xindice (which is something I'm going to seriously consider since I need
> > stuff that most people here would think it doesn't belong to a DB core,
> > but to a higher middleware, things like validation, security)
> >
> > I'm seriously considering writing a big fat wrapper around XIndice to
> > provide all the functionality I need around a document-oriented XML
> > datastore, also without the problem of having an API to bind me.
> >
> > What would you people think of such a thing?
>
> It's another way to solve the problem. Yet I tend to think that without
> metadata, security, validation, linking and so on, Xindice is at risk of
> becoming just a distributed XML filesystem. Which is way too little to
> become a viable solution for anything.
I surely tend to agree (without any offense for anyone here)
> I wish I had more time ATM to
> help this community find a way out of what you correctly call a
> stagnation that scares me out quite a bit. And I hope to be proven wrong :-)
I have resources to dedicate to metadata, security and versioning, but I
don't want to be blocked in the middle of a "XML:DB API" muds. This is
my reasons for wrapping instead of patching.
This said, I'm very willing to reconsider this ideas based on what this
community finds appropriate... the only thing that is slowly killing the
evolution of this project is an API that was created *before* the
mile-long TODO design list was written. An API that not many seems to be
endorsing.
My suggestion is: forget the API and concentrate on functionality. The
API will follow.
But I'm pretty sure the xindice committers don't agree with my vision,
or am I wrong?
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
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