Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Augmenting acs_objects - adding package_id, name, and clarifying other fields

The attributes we are talking about require only a handful of bytes to store and generally almost every object has them. That is why I think they belong into a central table (note that I don't want them to be moved out of their respective packages' tables)

The XML stuff sounds attractive for search. I started work on a search project and I am very interested in looking into bits of your XML code. The search project currently requires Oracle 8i, but I have good hope to return the code to OpenACS and then I will make it work and play well with Oracle 9i's new features.