I think whether RELS-EXT (or any other "special" datastream) is inline or managed shouldnt matter to Fedora. But the current expectation is that its all inline. Given the memory requirements that this currently imposes, it seems like it should be formally relaxed in future versions of Fedora. Any objections? If not i'll create an issue for this.
- Chris On Monday, May 18, 2009, Aaron Birkland <[email protected]> wrote: > I was digging through some older e-mail when I found this. I don't > think anybody responded: > >> we created a Fedora object via Fedora-Admin tool with a RELS-EXT data >> stream which has a control group “Managed Content”. > > <snip>and everything worked fine, but the documentation says > otherwise:</snip> > >> “The RELS-EXT Datastream should be encoded as an Inline XML >> Datastream, meaning that the relationships metadata is expressed >> directly as XML within the digital object XML file (as opposed the >> relationship metadata existing in a separate XML file that the digital >> object points to by reference).” > > I don't know of any specialized code in Fedora itself that assumes > RELS-EXT is an inline datastream, so I am not surprised that everything > works. However, there's has been precedent for some external utilities > (such as migration tools) to assume that RELS-EXT is inline. The 2.2 -> > 3.0 migration tool was one. It simply applied an XSL transform to every > foxml file, and assumed that RELS-EXT was either inline, or did not > exist in the object. A managed RELS-EXT datastream would likely have > caused a problem to the utility or to the resulting data. > > I believe that the specific control group for RELS-EXT (or any > datastream) should ideally be irrelevant as far as the repository and > utilities are concerned. Unfortunately, I don't know what other tools > or services do/will operate under the inline XML assumption, so I would > proceed with caution. > > -Aaron > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables > unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine > for externally facing server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
