Re: Proposed EXPath module: resource collections

Fixing the e-mail address of Hans-Jürgen, who had the original idea..


On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Christian Grün
<christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good idea! I would also welcome the introduction of such a module.
>
> I also believe that the lowest common subset of document properties in
> different implementations boils down to only a few properties.. if any
> at all (except for the document uri). In my experience, most people
> were asking for such an extension to be able to store and retrieve
> application-defined document properties. The Qizx API provided a
> similar feature for that (see [1], Section 8). A compromise could be
> to have a minimum set of mandatory document properties and an extended
> set of recommended properties.
>
> Talking about the fetch function, I would personally prefer to have a
> static rc:fetch function. As long as we don't have enhanced type
> definitions, as recently motivated by John Snelson, functions
> resulting from the evaluation of maps cannot be statically parsed
> anymore.
>
> [1] http://kiwi.emse.fr/DN/qizx-manual.pdf
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You might consider adding a "size" property. It's pretty useful
>>
>> yes, that was an oversight in my initial list.
>>
>> Michael Kay
>> Saxonica
>>

Received on Wednesday, 18 February 2015 12:50:57 UTC