On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, at 10:14 [-0800], Dave Viner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Have you contacted Murray about the XNode implementation? It was put
> into
> the scratchpad, and looked promising but we hit some odd licensing issues
> that were never resolved. (Or at least thats the last I remember of it.)
>
> dave
I haven't talked to him and haven't had a chance to look at the XNode
spec yet (probably Monday). I've just read previous list threads.
One way to support it (from the inline metadata perspective) would be to
use it as a read-only way to return system metadata with the document.
I mean something like:
* store the document in the usual way, no XNode wrapping.
* when the document is extracted from the BTree due to a query
or whatever, take the document + metadata and rewrite it
as an XNode doc and return it.
With inline metadata read-only XNode is easy, but only system metadata
can be available inline. Kind of a waste of the XNode capabilities, but
it could be handy.
Regards,
Gary
