From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:59:50 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <87n05hja3d.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <407AB9AE.3060801@pobox.com> <407ADCBF.8000609@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Hans" == Hans Reiser writes: Hans> Mhy colon instead of / ? There is no reason for it. Implementing Hans> a storage layer to make XML storage more efficient might be Hans> commercially interesting, but XML is not what we should copy for Hans> namespace style. Interestingly enough, for a course that I'm taking, I have to write a research proposal, and that's the topic I've chosen, more or less. Basically, I'm proposing to export a filesystem interface to XML, so that you can do XML querying straight through the filesystem. I'll post the proposal to the list after I'm done. Whether or not actual research will come out of that proposal is a different question. (I'd like to pursue it further, but it's out of my current research area, so I would have to switch areas, or figure out how to mutate it to look like an algorithms topic.) -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.