Re: module for XML databases

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:42, Richard Samar wrote: > Hi, > after a lot of request I have decided to commit the > modules for XML Databases to the CVS of PEAR. > > I have a few questions resp. need a few OKs of some ppl > to do that. > There are two modules with some additional files. > Modules for Xindice and Tamino. > > 1) where should the modules go? My preference is > XDB_Tamino > XDB_Xindice If you see yourself using factory methods to create connections to these different XML databases (like DB and MDB do), the norm is to use all-lowercase names for the "factory module" so it's easier for programs to get the right names. For example: DB_mysql (not DB_MySQL), DB_oci8, DB_pgsql and DB_ado. > which both result to the pear dir XDB for XML Databases. > > Being DBs they are still do not belong to the DB dir. > Being XML DBs they don't do XML stuff in a way they should > belong to the XML dir. > ...this is though my idea about this. > And there are a few other XML DBs which might be supportet > and maybe one day me or someone else writes kind of an > abstraction As for naming, I'm +1 for XDB and +0 for XML_DB. > 2) Xindice will follow soon, Tamino is still very alpha > and needs a little bit time > > 3) everything is finely documented via PHPDoc - talking to > Alexander Merz at the conference I will add the docu auto > generated with a tool written by Alexander to the doc of > pear. Great. - Stig (who will stay longer at the next php conf!) -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb