[Zope-dev] Zope and Storm (SQL)

[Andreas Jung]

--On 24. Mai 2008 18:51:17 +0200 Brian Sutherland <brian at vanguardistas.net> 
wrote:

> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 06:23:01PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On 24. Mai 2008 17:57:17 +0200 Brian Sutherland
>> <brian at vanguardistas.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:28:37AM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
>>>> - how do you deal with hierarchical or semi-structured data
>>>>  (e.g. SGML, XML)?
>>>
>>> As a side note, PostgreSQL 8.3 has a native XML column type. It's fairly
>>> basic still, but you can create indexes based on xpath queries.
>>
>> Jup. Postgres already had in version 7 XML support as an add-on...but
>> pretty much unusable for the production
>
> Interesting, why not?
>
> I'm finding it incredibly useful, but then maybe my needs are very
> simple.

An important functionality would be being able to modify nodes of an XML 
document in-place. Storing and querying using xpath is only one part of the 
story.

Andreas

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