On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:05:00 -0700 Kimbro Staken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm planning to do a new update of the API docs in the near future and I > want to solicit more feedback on what goes into this. > > Here are the items that we're looking at right now. These are brief > summaries that should be drilled down on. > > - Updating XPathQueryService to support XML namespaces. +1 > - Looking at adding more flexible result types from XPathQueryService. > The only result type currently is a ResourceIterator which can be limiting. > - Determining the behavior for the ID on a resource that is returned from Do you mean the discussion with the Jochen Wiedman (Software AG) here? > a query. > - Adding a CollectionManager service to allow simple management of > collections. +1 > - Adding a XUpdate service so that XUpdate queries can be executed against > a collection. +1 > - Collection should have an isOpen method to determine if the collection > is still open. > - Collection methods should throw an exception if the collection is closed. Hmm. Can you give me a use case? If the API is not Connection-based why we need a close()/isOpen() method? .. Please ignore my ignorance. ;-) > - ResourceType as passed to create resource is passed as a string. This > should be a constant value somewhere in the API. +1 > - Checking for optional API features should probably be reexamined. > currently only conformance level can be used to test this. > > What am I missing? > > Along with these changes the reference impl needs to be updated and > actually made available outside of CVS. I already made some fixes in the build scripts. The build process should work now properly. > After this update I also want to make the existence of the API more widely > known and issue a call for implementations. I hope that Per Nyfelt is able to provide the implementation of the XML:DB API. With this we could announce 2 + 1 ref implementations. -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
