Hello all, Anyhow, what I wanted to ask was whether anyone might be able to create the XPIDL and C++ files necessary to create an XPCOM component to allow Mozilla Javascript to access the open source Berkeley DB XML native XML database (or take me through what steps I needed to do to do it myself). The database already has a C++ API (as well as Python, Java, Perl, PHP), so I figured it should be possible somehow to do it as an XPCOM component.
Not sure how familiar you all might be with native XML databases, but they are a powerful and intuitive way to store hierarchical data in a way that is not kludgy like doing so in relational SQL databases can be. Given XML being everywhere too, it makes sense in many cases to forego the middle-man of an extra database server, particularly one that will store the data imperfectly or inefficiently. Also, use of this XML database makes available the very powerful and W3C-standard XQuery language which to my knowledge is not otherwise available for us humble Javascript or PHP programmers. Since I have next-to-no knowledge of C++, I'd really appreciate any help getting this going. thanks! Brett _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
