19 messages in org.w3.xproc-devRe: Fileutils| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Norman Walsh | May 25, 2009 11:58 am | |
| David A. Lee | May 25, 2009 2:21 pm | |
| Norman Walsh | May 25, 2009 2:26 pm | |
| Norman Walsh | May 25, 2009 3:11 pm | |
| Dave Pawson | May 25, 2009 10:04 pm | |
| mozer | May 25, 2009 11:34 pm | |
| Toma...@emc.com | May 26, 2009 12:19 am | |
| Norman Walsh | May 26, 2009 5:06 am | |
| Norman Walsh | May 26, 2009 5:07 am | |
| Norman Walsh | May 26, 2009 5:09 am | |
| Dave Pawson | May 26, 2009 6:49 am | |
| Norman Walsh | May 29, 2009 4:27 am | |
| Toma...@emc.com | May 29, 2009 4:47 am | |
| James Fuller | Jun 1, 2009 5:07 am | |
| Leif Warner | Jun 1, 2009 9:28 am | |
| James Fuller | Jun 1, 2009 9:43 am | |
| Norman Walsh | Jun 1, 2009 9:43 am | |
| James Fuller | Jun 1, 2009 10:17 am | |
| Norman Walsh | Jun 1, 2009 11:22 am |
| Subject: | Re: Fileutils | |
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| From: | Dave Pawson (dave...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | May 25, 2009 10:04:42 pm | |
| List: | org.w3.xproc-dev | |
2009/5/25 Norman Walsh <nd...@nwalsh.com>:
Dave's Ant/XProc thread of a few days ago makes it clear that some pipelines are going to want to interact with the local filesystem.
This seems like the ideal place for exproc; these steps aren't part of the XProc 1.0 standard, but there's no reason we implementors can't agree on their semantics and what they're called.
Before I try to write these up as extensions, let's see if we can all agree on the semantics that we think would be most useful. Here's what I've implemented so far, with a few notes.
How about a simpler list of 'user requirements' Norm? mkdir touch (create empty file) delete (file|directories [recurse]) copy (file|directory [recurse]) mv (file|directory) Retrieve value of a system property Retrieve list of file properties (R|W|X....)
(I've never used 'is readable|writable|exists - but I can see it being useful) (rename? I'd prefer move)
Q: Should "file" be made absolute wrt to the current base URI, or left unchanged (effectively making it relative to the implementations notion of current working directory)?
Any use made of PATH variable? Treat as per current OS, i.e. could be relative or absolute? Using base URI would make it 'odd' wrt other file utils? I.e. that is XML only, whereas fileutils is OS based? Some conflict there
Minor disagreement with your list!
HTH
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