collection creation

2002-01-05 Thread John Merrells
  I'm working on a C++ implementation of this API. The first puzzle I'm trying to solve is how collections are created. It seems that the CollectionManagementService is the only place where a collection can be created. And, it seems that this service comes from getService on Collection.

Re: collection creation

2002-01-05 Thread Kimbro Staken
Interesting question. When we created the API there was no way to add collections at all. The CollectionManagementService was added later and it assumes that there is always some kind of collection to start from. Creating collections is a sticky problem overall because the existing databases

Re: collection creation

2002-01-05 Thread John Merrells
> Interesting question. When we created the API there was no way to add > collections at all. The CollectionManagementService was added later and it > assumes that there is always some kind of collection to start from. > Creating collections is a sticky problem overall because the existing >

XPathQueryService & namespaces

2002-01-05 Thread John Merrells
  This service provides a bunch of methods for setting up a mapping of namespace prefixes to uris. But I don't understand what these are supposed to be used for Might the XPath query contain references to these namespaces...?   John