23 Jun
2008
23 Jun
'08
1:32 p.m.
On Jun 23, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
[snip]
I'm playing the devil's advocate here. I'd really like to have
Stephane Lauriere's input on this.
Look at WinFS for example. It's implemented as a flat structure with
only tags. This allows having different views easily. It's possible to
simulate a directory/folder-based system using a tagging system.
The solution in our case could be to offer standard tags such as
"space" and "wiki".
I also think it would be much simpler to use a strong notion of Wiki/
Space and have such objects but I don't want to dismiss any other
solution and I'd like that we have this discussion.
What do others think?
* BTW this
also raises the question as to whether we want to have a
representation for space and wiki or not and instead only use tags,
in
which case a document name is simply a String like "mypage". But then
it should be unique. So it could also be made of a list of identity
tags as in: "space=sp1,sp2:wiki:wiki1:language=fr:mypage". Or we
could
standardize it as "wiki1:sp1,sp2:fr:mypage" and have the
DocumentNameFactory transform it into tags. In that case the
DocumentName object would be a Map of tags + the document name
("mypage"). I think we need to decide ASAP if we want to keep the
strict and hardcoded notion of Wiki>Space>Document>Object>Property or
instead go full tags since this changes completely the v2 interfaces
and code we're writing.
I'm -1 for "only tags" as at least applications would benefit from a
strong folder/spaces organization IMO. There is also the question of real tree-like structure
of the spaces
as it is described in http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-354
Yep, I have this one in mind.
Thanks
-Vincent