[RUS-WG] my comments to the proposals in "draft-19"

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Hi Rosario and Gilbert,

GridForge Tracker is a very useful tool for comment resolution.
I recommend you to look into it.

https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/projects.ogsa-wg/tracker
https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1666

Thanks,
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Hiro Kishimoto

Gilbert Netzer wrote:
> Hi Rosario, hi everybody,
> 
> thanks for providing these constructive comments!
> 
> As you suggested, since the mail is quite long, I cut out parts in this 
> reply, and am trying to provide a hint on one specific question only. The 
> original mail can be found in the archives to the rus-wg mailing list!
> 
> Some comments are inline below:
> 
> Rosario Michael Piro wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> [attention: this is a monster email, but I hope it will help in getting 
>> started a fruitful discussion :o)
>> By the way, the length of this mail is one of the reasons why we should 
>> try to have _single_ or at least _limited_ proposals, not the entire 
>> document at once]
> [...] CUT HERE
>> [quote]
>>      Xiaoyu asked also about the use of XUpdate in the 
>> RUS::modifyUsageRecords
>>      method.
>>      Gilbert suggested changing the XUpdate to XQuery update extensions 
>> since
>>      the XUpdate specification seems to not be maintained any more and never
>>      advanced beyond draft stage.
>> [/quote]
>>
>> How do update extensions of XQuery work (sounds interesting)? Does 
>> anybody have a nice document in which I can read more about this?
>>
> 
> I have found the draft specification on the www.w3.org website, they call 
> it "XQuery Update Facility". From a quick glance it provides a lot of 
> functionality and seems to be somewhat recent (July 2006). Also the open 
> source XML database claims to be able to handle those kinds of expressions, 
>   so there should be some implementations around.
> 
> This is the working draft:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xqupdate/
> 
> They also have published a use cases document:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xqupdateusecases/
> 
> [...] CUT
>> Well this is alot for now ... already too much.
>> Let me have your opinions, if see there is some interest in the things I 
>> have suggested I can write them more clearly in a proposal document that 
>> we can take then as reference.
>  >
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rosario.
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> 
> I hope this did provide some pointers, I will look into this more when I 
> get the time! And I hope that I can provide more comments about the 
> proposals soon.
> 
> Best Regards
> Gilbert
> 
> 
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