On Nov 27, 2007 3:19 PM, Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007 2:41 PM, maxim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > its useful when you have XML based framework where your backend is > > trying to reflect some XML schema and you dont what to remap XML on the DB > > schema but just using it. > > If you really want to use XML for your backend storage, I'd suggest > using something built for that purpose like XML::Comma or a database > with XML support. MySQL 5.1 has built-in XPath queries, and I'm sure > someone must have built a Postgres extension for it too. Oracle has > had it for about a decade.
Just cause it came up, prior to 8.3, there is the xml2 contrib module for Postgres. Postgres 8.3, currently in what is likely to be final beta, has built-in xml datatype and allows xpath queries on columns of xml datatype. Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object
