Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
I agree that since Xindice has namespace support, most application level metadata can be stored without Xindice knowing about it, but there is some that simply cannot, without a serious and complex wrapper around Xindice (which is something I'm going to seriously consider since I need stuff that most people here would think it doesn't belong to a DB core, but to a higher middleware, things like validation, security)
I'm seriously considering writing a big fat wrapper around XIndice to provide all the functionality I need around a document-oriented XML datastore, also without the problem of having an API to bind me.
What would you people think of such a thing?
It's another way to solve the problem. Yet I tend to think that without metadata, security, validation, linking and so on, Xindice is at risk of becoming just a distributed XML filesystem. Which is way too little to become a viable solution for anything. I wish I had more time ATM to help this community find a way out of what you correctly call a stagnation that scares me out quite a bit. And I hope to be proven wrong :-)
Ciao,
-- Gianugo
