I poked around the docs and mailing list for a bit, and didn't see any references to ideas/future of this? I'm not looking so much just to store xml in MySQL, obviously I can just use a text column for that. I was more thinking along the lines of eXist and dbXML and the XML:DB initiative in particular. Being able to effectively query the content of the XML document, relatating it to other standard column types. Other possibilities is to name an xml schema during column creation, to force validation of the incoming data. Specialized indexes would be needed, as likely you would need to not just index the column, but an xml path (e.g. XPath) within the data itself. Then of course, updating part of the data based on paths.... you get the idea.... Anyway, I was wondering if MySQL or the community was thinking/doing anything like this... I would volunteer to help, but as my strong suit is Java, I don't think I'd be too much help... ;) Thanks, Dan Greene
