On Saturday, June 8, 2002, at 02:28 PM, Vanessa Williams wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can ease my mind a bit about the intended strategy
for implementing access control in Xindice. The reason I bring it up at all
is that over at xmldb.org, they mention a potential ACL project with a
proposed spec which worries me very much. The proposed (or potential)
solution involves adding elements to the documents to be stored. If
something like this is adopted in Xindice, it will make Xindice nearly
useless to me :( I would much prefer just about any other scheme!
Something, hopefully, which decouples access control from the contents of
the documents themselves.
That project was just an idea that was thrown out a long time ago. I don't see it ever going anywhere.
Everything that we've discussed in the past has been ACL outside the document. I don't think anyone would really want it in the document. Unfortunately, we're not making much progress at the moment. All the critical players are a bit distracted.
I haven't seen a great deal of discussion on this topic here, so maybe the work has begun and maybe it has not. Can anyone enlighten me as to the direction (or current lack thereof)? As I said, if something like the xml: db idea is being supported, I'll have to find a different XML database ASAP. I would rather continue to support Xindice.
Thanks for your time.
Vanessa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kimbro Staken Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/ Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org
