Re: [xml-dev] RESTful operations on document fragments

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 23/02/2008, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:
> Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
>  > You could always add an abstraction layer that maps URLs (resources)
>  > to document fragments. In your Bible example, you could define a
>  > resource for each verse in the document. Therefore you can PUT an
>  > updated verse, and a bit of code would then update the appropriate
>  > document fragment.
>
>
> I can always create abstraction layer upon abstraction layer.  They make
>  pretty piles, until they fall over.

How about creating a servlet called something like update, then map
all urls to it:

*/update

the call it using the path of the XML that you want to update:

/root/elem1/elem2/update

the update servlet will know what needs to be updated based on the url.

A couple of large caveats - I'm not sure if that's even possible
(haven't worked in that area very much) or if that's considered
restful (ditto).


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