Further Desired Characteristics of the Repository

• The repository should allow for multiple levels of a directory hierarchy, so that objects (both permanent and transient) may be stored in a fashion that reflects their semantics.

• It would be valuable for the repository to provide special functionality related to XML documents. Desired functionality includes flagging documents for well-formedness and for validity against a supplied DTD.

• It would also be valuable for the repository's versioning system to include diff functionality and version branching.