Re: Character encodings

> The XML-RPC spec is kind of nuts; it was only designed for very very
> simple use cases.
>
> Here is one way to make the REST interface "fully featured":
>
> 1. declare a namespace for each Service: e.g.
> user="http://exist-db.org/service/UserManagementService";
> 2. expose all the methods on the Service interface as XQuery functions.
>
> Then, the existing REST/Query interface allows all possible operations.
> With the added bonus that they are also available to XQuery writers. ;-)

I agree that all the administrative functions should be available from XQuery. 
If we implement the XQuery JSR, we need to provide access to these functions.

> I have one suggestion that makes working with the "collection" based
> functions easier - it would be different from xmldb:collection(), which
> currently expects a URI as its first argument to pass to
> DatabaseManager.getCollection(uri, user, pass). As a remote user I may not
> know the database-id of the engine running the query; it is not
> necessarily correct to assume that xmldb:exist:///db points to the local
> database. Also, the user running the query is already authenticated, so
> why should they pass authentication information again in the query?

Yes, I already asked myself how to simplify the various xmldb: functions. Do 
we really need to have two collection functions (three if we add 
local-collection)? We already have fn:collection() and xmldb:collection(). 
Why not extend fn:collection to accept an XMLDB URI? Instead of directly 
creating a document set, fn:collection would return an object representing a 
collection. This can then be either used to call administrative functions or 
to create a document set for a query. Also, user and password could be 
specified in the URI, so no additional arguments would be required.

Wolfgang


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