Dear All, I'm really happy to let you know that after a whole year of hard work the University of St.Gallen has developed a new research platform "Alexandria" based on MySQL and PHP.
http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch I'm really would like to say thanks to MySQL AB who did support our work in a beautiful way especially Alexander Barkov. He has given us the code of the NEW XPATH FUNCTIONS in MySQL even though itâs not yet part of the official code. So I'm really glad to tell you that we are the first users of his code and that Alexandria is worldwide the first platform which is based on Alexanders Xpath implementation. If someone is interested in more details donât be afraid to contact either Alexander or myself. For further information have a look at his presentation at the MySQL User Conference that is now being held: http://mysql.r18.ru/~bar/myxml/ For now you can use two functions to work with directly stored XML data in MySQL - EXTRACTVALUE() and UPDATEXML(). For now we're running our database (MySQL 5.0.5dev) with more than 15'000 records including fulltext search and it works beautiful. So Alexander keep on going :-) Kind Regards, Thomas ____________________________ Thomas Nicolai =mcminstitute UniversitÃt St. Gallen Blumenbergplatz 9 CH-9000 St. Gallen Switzerland
