After reading the XUpdate specification[1], it gave me some ideas. It's a
bit awkward to specify this:
<xupdate:element name="address">
<town>San Francisco</town>
</xupdate:element>
To achieve this:
<address>
<town>San Francisco</town>
</address>
I think I understand why it's that way. However, XUpdate seems more ideally
suited for a JSP tag library, for tags can evaluate their bodies before
performing any updates. I'm familiar with XTags[2], but XTags 1.0 doesn't
have useful XUpdate stuff like <insertBefore>, <update>, and <insertAfter>.
But I digress. It might be nice to have an XUpdate-like tag library
interface to Xindice. For example:
<xindice:database url="xmldb:xindice:...">
<xindice:collection url="yadda">
<xindice:document name="blah">
<xindice:update
select="//someElement/text()">{$aJSPVariable}</xindice:update>
<xindice:insertAfter select="//[EMAIL PROTECTED] =
'{$aJSPExpression']">
<newElement>
<newChild/>
</newElement>
</xindice:insertAfter>
<xindice:insertBefore select="/*">
<xindice:comment>This comment goes before the
root.</xindice:comment>
</xindice:insertBefore>
...
</xindice:document>
... (more documents)
</xindice:collection>
... (more collections)
</xindice:database>
[1] http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate/
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/xtags-doc/
