- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:33:52 -0000
- To: "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
> > Collections look like a nice concept, but they don't > currently exist on the Web. It's straightforward to take a > document identified by an URI and use the Web to access that > document. For collections, there is no protocol or mechanism. > The way the specs currently read, they will either stay > vaporware or be badly implementation-dependent. > The collection concept has indeed caused some difficulty. It is intended as an abstraction of an XML database or a portion thereof. For most concrete implementations of XML databases (and, I understand, for systems that provide an XML view of a relational database) it's possible to identify a reasonably natural realisation of this concept, but it's true that people have difficulty understanding it at the abstract level. We've deliberately steered clear of defining, for example, whether collections can contain sub-collections, because this does become very implementation-dependent. Michael Kay (speaking personally)
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