Is it possible to have the David's metadata implementation implement the XNode API?
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir R. Bossicard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: second impl of metadata storage > > > A good reason to not include a metadata implementation in the main > > code base is that there are quite a lot of approaches to metadata > > storage, and to the types and complexities of metadata itself, and > > these vary depending on application. I developed the XNode API as > > an attempt at creating a *very* lightweight API. > > +1. But everyone already knows my opinion. > > I propose to first commit the XNode and Metadata implementations into > the scratchpad folder and see how we can define a Xindice API to easily > allow such extensions to be added. > > I'm sure that if we add everything into the main tree (it's easier, of > course) we will frustrate a lot of users because our implementation of > an certain API is not exactly what they need. If we keep things open, > we can still give the answer: "go, implement it yourself" :-) > > -Vladimir > > -- > Vladimir R. Bossicard > Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
