Hi Vanessa,
some weeks ago (on April, 29th) I brought up the topic and proposed a
different approach. Instead of adding elements or attributes I'd like to see
an ACL-tree in the system's part of xindice. I do not like the idea of
dynamically altering the stored XML-data because this causes lots of trouble
with validation on the application side. I wrote some interface classes to
integrate JAXB with Xindice and found out that I had to change all my
binding schemas just because Xindice adds attributes to all query results.
So far nobody has reacted on my posting and I intend to do some
experiments in the mentioned direction as soon as my real life permits me to
do so :-))
You are invited to share your thoughts on that topic. If you can't find my
original posting I can send it to you.
Tchaw!
Christoph
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Vanessa Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet am: Samstag, 8. Juni 2002 23:29
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Access control strategy
>
> 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.
>
> 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
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