From: Adam R. <ad...@ex...> - 2012-10-02 12:47:34
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Hi Joe, Im sooo happy to see someone taking responsibility and leading this effort. I am afraid that I am complete consumed by work at the moment but I do have a couple comments inline below - > FAQ > === > >From mailing list: > - How scalable is eXist? > - Uh oh, eXist won't start now! What do I do? > - How do I get data into eXist? > - How can I learn XQuery? How do I configure eXist memory settings properly so I dont get the dreaded Java OutOfMemoryError but get the best performance possible from my server/desktop. > >From Dmitriy: > - Scheduler extension: will replace existing Scheduler article > http://exist-db.org/exist/scheduler.xml Actually it wont replace the Scheduler in 2.0. So this should wait until after 2.0 otherwise the documentation will be ahead of date. > >From EX* projects: > - EXQuery RestXQ extension (we can link to the spec and documentation > at Adam's github project) If you point me at the right place, I could also write a little bit on this, for example describing the webapp/WEB-INF/data/restxq.registry file. > - Crypto / x-crypt module (we can link to the spec at > http://expath.org/spec/crypto) I am not sure, but I dont think this is the implementation of that spec, maybe check with Claudius. I think this is actually an early alpha version, before the spec was written and the namespaces etc changed. > - Replication extension: we can adapt Dannes' text file from trunk Just saw a post on eXist-development that seems to say that this does not work, and the doc is out of date already. > - exiftool module: all we need is a brief description of what this > module does and some examples I could provide that? > - images module: all we need is a brief description of what this > module does and some examples I could provide that? > - cssparser module: all we need is a brief description of what this > module does and some examples Should be considered unfinished and not ready for use. Could even be deleted from trunk. It was requested by Thomas White, and I wrote the absolute minimal for him to get it working. I dont have time to maintain this, so it should probably be removed unless someone else wants to own it. Quite simply it was designed to parse CSS and produce an XML representation. > - sort index (?): is this summarized anywhere? i see tests in trunk > that we could build an article from I think only Wolf knows this. > - spatial index: this is covered briefly in the "developers guide to > modularized indexes" but a more focused article would be good Does anyone know if this still works? > Articles not to migrate from wiki or to be removed > =================================== > Are there articles that we should consider removing (or putting in a > documentation "attic" of sorts)? I'm thinking: > - XACML (http://exist-db.org/exist/xacml.xml): no longer being > developed or supported Well we previously considered removing it, but I think a few people cried foul. > - LEXA (http://exist-db.org/exist/exist-stack.xml): does anyone > actually use this? wouldn't this be better as a blog article or github > project? Its probably out of date. > - xprocxq (http://exist-db.org/exist/xproc/xproc.xml): abandonware, > and isn't everyone united behind calabash? Probably yes. There is a newer xprocxq by Jim, but its MarkLogic only I think. > - XSLT 2.0 article (http://atomic.exist-db.org/HowTo/XSLT2/): isn't > saxon enabled by default these days? Yes. Can be removed. > - Group By article > (http://atomic.exist-db.org/HowTo/XQuery3/GroupByClause) is still > current but isn't in line with XQuery 3.0, right? > > (Wolf - none of the HowTo articles listed at > http://atomic.exist-db.org/HowTo/ have links; I had to google to find > the URL for each article. The FAQs landing page at > http://atomic.exist-db.org/FAQs/ complains of permissions problems.) There are articles that seem to have been lost when moving from the old Atomic Wiki to Wolfgang's new Atomic Wiki. For example my Asirra article links to an article on Akismet, which now seems to be missing from the Wiki. I did mention this to Wolfgang before by email but had no response. Perhaps are interested in chasing as part of this 'doc' project? I just went to check the Wiki again and its offline :-( -- Adam Retter eXist Developer { United Kingdom } ad...@ex... irc://irc.freenode.net/existdb |