The Zif Collective is proud to announce yet another confusing option for your applications. Sedna is a "native" XML database, open source, licensed under Apache 2.0 license. See http://modis.ispras.ru/sedna/ for features and download. zif.sedna communicates with Sedna. zif.sedna provides a dbapi-like interface (connections and cursors). zif.sedna provides a zope(3) database adapter and connection pooling (thanks to some code from sqlalchemy). It is provisionally thread-safe. zif.sedna is pure python. XQuery can be cool. zif.sedna is now available at the cheese shop. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ The readme came out a bit funny there. I know there were some < and > in the document when I wrote it, so you will have to use your imagination a bit to read the blurb. Or easy_install it and read the docs as they were intended. -Jim Washington