On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:42:43 +0200 Francesco Ricci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Kimbro Staken wrote: > > > > I want to throw out a question to find out what people think is the way > > forward for this API. Basically what are people hoping to get out of it? > > > > A rather "simple" implementation to test additional extensions. My > interest is in similarity queries over XML documents. > > > The reason I'm asking is because there has been very little activity > > based on the last draft that was posted. I expected that to at least > > spark some comment or maybe even cries of outrage but it has been very > > quiet instead. > > > > I do share your impression. From my side I'm rather satisfied with that > model. The only feature that it seems to lack is the ability to make > queries over multiple collections (joins). But maybe I'm wrong. > > But, I'd really like to have a very simple initial implementation to > validate the model and check how to extend that. Well, I started an implementation that is based on file system so there is no dependency from any database vendor (dbXML, ozone). This could be taken as an initial implementation to show, test, validate all features and/or models. > > achieve the same goal. An example of this would be Perl DBI and SAX. So > > what I wanted to throw out was the question of would it be of more value > > to us to focus more on implementation and less on specification? What I > > mean is should the output of this project be not only a driver manager > > and specification but also the drivers? One stated goal of XML:DB is to > > develop specs and reference implementations of those specs so this isn't > > inconsistent. > > > > I completely agree with that. > > > > > > BTW, I've done an implementation (Java) of the spec as it stands now for > > dbXML and have been looking at what it would take to do it for Tamino > > and Excelon as well. > > Is it possible to get that implementation? > -francesco > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > Francesco Ricci > ITC-irst > Electronic Commerce and Tourism Research Laboratory > via Sommarive 18 > 38050 Povo (TN) > Italy > > Phone: ++39-0461-314521 > Secr: ++39-0461-314530 > Fax : ++39-0461-302040 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ectrl.itc.it > http://members.xoom.it/fmricci/ > ---------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Contact adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
