Dear Christian,

1. Will BaseX clients still able to connect to the BaseX server serving HHTP requests ? This XQuery Client API Module is a very good idea !

2. IMHO, BaseX should concentrate on processing xml, I stopped using ZIP module when I realized db:add() was doing the job, in streaming mode.

Great job ! Best regards,

Fabrice

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Hi all,

we are interested in your opinion! As one of our main focus is to keep BaseX small and cute (..sad but true: the BaseX core library already exceeds 2mb.. ;), we're currently contemplating the removal of two existing BaseX features, namely..

1) the BaseXHTTP client mode (flag -c). Currently, we offer three operation modes: default, local, and client [1]. In client mode, all requests are supposed to be passed on to yet another BaseX server instance. Currently, however, WebDAV is the only service which is 100% compatible with this mode, while RESTXQ isn't tailored at all to handle remote database requests. Instead, we are contemplating on adding a light-weight XQuery Client API Module, which can then be used to explicitly address remote BaseX instances from within XQuery whenever databases are not stored locally anyway.

2) the current ZIP Module. The functionality won't disappear, though: we will replace it with a new, more flexible proposal specified by Matthias Branter (28msec) and me [2].

In a nutshell: who of you is using either 1) or 2) and would run into big troubles if those features were ousted and replaced with the approaches we believe are more promising for future development?

Thanks as usual for your feedback, either to the list (preferred) or in private, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server [2] http://spex.basex.org/index.php?title=ZIP_Module

Fabrice ETANCHAUD Senior Software Engineer

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