Re: Structured storage? (was Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8)

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

El lun, 05-04-2004 a las 22:46, Ryan McDougall escribió:

> 
> I'm no expert, but I was under the impression the structured data for
> WinFS or Storage is in human readable, parsable XML.

No.  in WinFS it's a companion SQL database based on Yukon.  But it lets
you treat the metadata with SQL, or as XML files (two APIs).

I do not think storing metadata on the database is the answer.  I think
storing metadata along the files, and using a database to CACHE that
data IS the way.  Doing it the other way around is just like C:\Windows
and C:\Program files, with its hodgepodge of different places for
different kinds of stuff.  Metadata needs to be as close as possible to
data, but no closer =).

>  The serialization
> method for a network might be a compressed byte stream, maybe using
> SOAP? 

Why?  Modern protocols already have facilities for this.

> 
> As for the byte stream itself we have a similar "problem" in that Unix
> uses UTF-8 encoding (instead of plain ASCII), while windows uses UTF-16.

That's why it makes sense to use established protocols.

> 
> Is anything I'm saying correct? I'm too lazy to confirm it. :(
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan
> 
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