RE: utf-8 working code... caution with existing data files.

[James Bates]

Title: Re: utf-8 working code... caution with existing data files.

Interesting Setfano:        For the moment, I too am using a wrapper library that was built around XML:DB to do these     extra things. After I get my encoding and XML:DB stuff going ok, I was considering introducing things like validation and re-validation into Xindice itself. Possibly needs parser support to do, and that might be a chance to get talking with the Xerces guys...   Security is coming post 1.1 if I got that correctly...   James -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 5/9/2002 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: utf-8 working code... caution with existing data files. David Viner wrote: > > "proper encoding and lack of available metadata" > am i correct in assuming that you mean the correct value for the encoding > attribute? No, I'm referring to the fact that XIndice stored textual stuff using a specific encoding which was not general enough to handle all Unicode, which is pretty serious issue for an XMl database given that XML can contain all unicode codes. But sounds like James just fixed this by using UTF-8 as the default encoding for what Xindice stores so I'm happy on that side (I'm going to test and try it out real soon) > what metadata are you referring to?  do you mean things like a DOCTYPE > element or a schema? > or do you mean something more like "last modified time"? Sorry, I have to explain further: I'm talking about datastore-specific metadata. Things like "last modified" and such. There has been no agreement on this list about "what data is metadata" since metadata is data anyway. 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? -- Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be                           able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                             Friedrich Nietzsche --------------------------------------------------------------------