> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir R. Bossicard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 26 November 2002 04:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Organizing the guides
> 
> 
> I've gently started to think about the manual and how they 
> could have (IMO) a
> better organization.  Before cutting/pasting from the old 
> manuals, I would like
> your feedback.
> 
> I think that the Administrator Guide is going to be merged 
> with the User Guide:
> - There is no server and CORBA anymore
> - Collection management also concerns the user
> - what's left are the indexes and the backup of data -> 
> easily merged into the
> user guide
> 
> Proposition:
> 
> - Getting Started document (merge admin+user guides)
> 
>     * Introduction to XML Databases
>           o What Is an XML Database
>           o Apache Xindice
>     * Database Administration
>           o Create the Database
>           o Import and Export
>           o Working with indices
>     * Working with Collections
>     * Working with Documents
>     * Querying Documents
>           o Introduction to XPath
>     * Updating Documents
>           o Introduction to XUpdate
> 
> - Database programming (formely Developer guide)
> 
>     * Introduction
>     * XML-PRC Programming
>           o What Is XML-RPC?
>           o Message Definition
>     * Embedding Xindice
>           o What Is the XML:DB API?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

I'm not sure that discussing XML-RPC is anything that the database 
user/developer should be concerned with. In 
principle he should XML:DB with the appropriate driver (i.e. the XML-RPC 
driver) no? We didn't bore end-developers
with the details of CORBA before, why bother him with XML-RPC now?

James


> -Vladimir
> 
> 
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> Vladimir R. Bossicard
> www.bossicard.com
> 

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