Dear TC members,
FYI: We can expect a revised database proposal within the next days.
Michael
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Subject: OASIS Open Document Database file format
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:14:55 +0200
From: Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany <>
To: Michael Brauer <>
Hi Michael,
after feedback from Jarosław Staniek, the main developer of Kexi,
KOffice's database application, I decided to partially rework the file
format proposal. (Note: You can find Jarosław's feedback collected at [1].)
The main items we want to address in the next iteration:
- Split up connection data into connection settings, driver settings,
and application settings. A lot of concerns raised in [1] seem to be
caused by a mix of different-level settings in one place, without
clearly indicating the different origins.
- Use a more description connection resource description than a pure URI
Since there's no standardized URI scheme for describing connection
resources, pure URIs would always be heavily application dependent,
and thus might render the intention of file format interoperability
kind of useless.
So, we will allow to split connection information into more basic
chunks, were appropriate, and use URIs only as feedback where those
chunks are not sufficient to completely describe a database
connection.
Regards
Frank
[1]http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?OpenDocumentForDatabases
