Re: [Exist-development] Metadata in eXist

[Dmitriy S. <sha...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:03 PM, James Fuller <jam...@ex...>wrote:

> On 30 July 2010 11:37, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
> >> I like the idea of metadata axis. Your proposal for name/value pairs is
> >> simple and it can accommodate most of variations we may need.
>
> on 2nd thought I think axis is maybe undermining things a little ...
> whereas I completely see the benefit in a standard axis to deal with
> time ... metadata seems to be turning things on their head; we can
> just as easily inject attributes/elements to do the same thing.
>
> we need to keep in mind that when data is backed up / archived /
> extracted outside the system that metadata moves with it.


Keep things as simple as possible & try to use existing ... so, -1
for metadata axis. Yes, it simple, but break second rule.

+1 for mods way.

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Dmitriy Shabanov