Dear Peter,
I do not understand your "consistency" argument. Surely, you can find
some way to serve files with any name through http?
Best, Djoerd.
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 04:02:22PM +0100, Torsten Grust wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> while I appreciate the http access functionality for database
>> documents, I do feel that this (rather strict) naming convention
>> is unfortunate. There are a lot of XML files out there that use
>> non-'.xml' endings ('.xhtml' and '.xsl' come to mind, immediately).
>>
>>
>> Cheers, --Torsten
>>
>> On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> MonetDB/XQuery has an integrated HTTP server that treats GET (and
>>> PUT,DELETE) requests for URLs that end in .xml or .XML in a
>>> special way.
>>>
>>> Such files are not served from the http file directory
>>> (datadir/xrpc/) but are taken to be requests for XML documents
>>> stored in MonetDB/XQuery.
>>>
>>> Since the moment this feature was added, indeed the restriction
>>> has been imposed that all documents in the database should have a
>>> name ending in .xml This was done for consistency: now all
>>> documents X in the database can be retrieved through HTTP (i.e.
>>> http://yourserver:50001/X)
>>>
>>> If the restriction is not imposed, the HTTP access method will
>>> not work anymore for all documents.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- Stefan Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef:
>>>> Peter,
>>>>
>>>> could you please have a look at this and comment?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much in advance! Stefan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:02:27PM +0100, Stefan Manegold
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Two tests fail (apparently unnoticed for some time) due to
>>>>> the same problem; cf.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://monetdb.cwi.nl/testing/projects/monetdb/Current/pathfinder/.mTests103/GNU.64.64.d-Fedora6/tests_BugDay_2005-12-19_0.9.3/shred_doc_with_space.SF-1211372.out.00.html
>>>>>
>>>>> http://monetdb.cwi.nl/testing/projects/monetdb/Current/pathfinder/.mTests103/GNU.64.64.d-Fedora6/tests_BugsViaSourgeforce/ID.1200405.out.00.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:17:59AM +0100, Djoerd Hiemstra
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Martin,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are right, sorry, here is the English translation:
>>>>>> Recently it is no longer possible to add logical names for
>>>>>> XML documents that do not end with .xml, for instance
>>>>>>
>>>>>> let $site := "http://www.sigir2007.org/"; let $pages :=
>>>>>> ("index.html", "cfp.html", "cfw.html") for $page in $pages
>>>>>> return pf:add-doc(concat($site, $page), $page, "MySIGIR")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gives: ERROR = !ERROR: add-doc((null)): document name must
>>>>>> end in .xml (3 such errors)!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the previous version this was possible, and I use it for
>>>>>> instance in a demo for one of our industrial partners in
>>>>>> the MultimediaN project. Can this error please be removed?
>>>>>> XML documents can have many extensions, for instance.rss,
>>>>>> .xhtml, .svg, etc. I might want to add to the database:
>>>>>> sigir.html (web page in xhtml) sigir.xml (source of the
>>>>>> page) sigir.xsd (schema of the page) sigir.rss (RSS feed
>>>>>> of the page) sigir.svg (page as a nice graphic) sigir.mml
>>>>>> (mathematical formula of the page) etc, etc.,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think the error is too restrictive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards, Djoerd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin Kersten wrote:
>>>>>>> Djoerd,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please, realize that this list is read worldwide. English
>>>>>>> is the preferred language. It is also readable for 100
>>>>>>> people in Beijing looking at this mailing list.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> regards, Martin
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Djoerd Hiemstra wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ha die MonetDBs,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ik zie dat het niet meer langer toegestaan is om
>>>>>>>> logische namen van documenten in de database te hebben
>>>>>>>> die niet op .xml eindigen, bijvoorbeeld:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> let $site := "http://www.sigir2007.org/"; let $pages :=
>>>>>>>> ("index.html", "cfp.html", "cfw.html") for $page in
>>>>>>>> $pages return pf:add-doc(concat($site, $page), $page,
>>>>>>>> "MySIGIR")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> geeft:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ERROR = !ERROR: add-doc((null)): document name must end
>>>>>>>> in .xml (3 such errors)!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dit mocht eerder wel. Kan dit teruggedraaid worden? XML
>>>>>>>> documenten kunnen veel extensies hebben, bijvoorbeeld
>>>>>>>> .rss, .xhtml, .svg, etc. Ik wil misschien wel
>>>>>>>> toevoegen: sigir.html (webpagina in xhtml) sigir.xml
>>>>>>>> (source van webpagina) sigir.rss (RSS feed voor
>>>>>>>> pagina) sigir.svg (pagina als mooi plaatje) sigir.mml
>>>>>>>> (wiskundige formulering voor pagina) enz., enz.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ik vind deze foutmelding te restrictief.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Groetjes, Djoerd.
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