Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
JC Tchitchiama wrote:
[...]
One other thing that may be considered is an xml-security layer at the
document level. A documents can be signed (to prevent fraudulent changes) or
indeed encrypted to allow only folks with the right public key to access
(read/edit) the document.
I think xml-security is outside of the scope of Xindice: you can
implement xml-security on top of Xindice, in your application.
Another option might be a driver which wraps another driver and provides
xml-security encryption / decryption transparantly.
I agree. I'd much rather have any development time spent on getting
1.1 completely up and running, fixing bugs, improving performance
and existing features like indexing, before anybody starts heading
down paths that are complete projects in their own right. Vadim has
been putting enormous energy into just keeping Xindice from dying as
a project. The idea of branching off on only orthogonally-related
things like security prior to even a 2.0 release seems very premature.
Stability and performance are a lot more important.
Murray
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