Re: [Exist-development] Metadata in eXist

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

> I don't like the idea of a property:: axis. If the metadata is an
> ordinary document, you can just use standard XPath, e.g.
> metadata("/db/my/doc.xml")//mods:titleInfo.

This is no different to having an axis in my vision! Surely better to
keep the existing doc and collection functions, and be able to access
the metadata naturally in a query by using metadata::
In this way you can slowly and easily introduce metadata into existing queries.


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