I have a large european project that my organisation are involved with that requires us to use an XML database. I know that the project "core" are using Tamino, and have my doubts about how well zope can exchange data with this system... I would like to use zope at our end but I need advice on the possibilities. does anybody have experience on this mixture of Tamino/Zope???... we are looking at all angles on this one and will be able to offer a budget for development if necessary... to be quite honest I would vastly prefer to offer the money that Tamino costs to the zope community in order to provide a solution.... any answers to dkelly@aet-es.org please. Regards David AET quote from http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDatabaseProds.htm#native Tamino Developer: Software AG URL: http://www.softwareag.com/tamino/ Database type: Native XML (Adabas?). Relational through ODBC. Tamino consists of an engine (the X-Machine), an internal XML data store (apparently the Adabas hierarchical database), a relational database and SQL engine, a module (the X-Node) for interfacing to external data sources, such as relational databases and file systems, an HTTP server, administration tools, and a data map. The latter describes where the data in a given XML document is stored and allows XML documents to be composed from multiple, heterogeneous sources. Tamino's XML support includes a DOM implementation, an XQL implementation, processing of XML documents with XSL and CSS, and limited support for SOAP. It can store schema-less documents and can use schema information if it is available. The internal SQL engine is addressable through ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB. However, it does not appear that, when addressed via these APIs, it can integrate data from the internal XML data store or from external data sources.