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.

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Lars Martin                                    mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMB GmbH                                        http://www.smb-tec.com

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