[Zope] OQL

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:33:10 +0100


Rogerio Atem de Carvalho <r.carvalho@cefetcampos.br> wrote:
> I have a question: Will ZODB have something like OQL?
> The problem in using ZODB is to do simple queries and 
> link different class object instances in queries (SQL 
> join).
> It is hard to do simple things in ZODB like aggregate 
> functions (sum, max ...)
> That's why I use an external RDBMS...

The XPath and XQuery support that ought to be coming along with the new
XML support will handle this, although not with OQL as such. The
functionality will be about equivalent, though.

  http://www.zope.org/Wikis/zope-xml/XPath%20in%20Zope

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Steve Alexander
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Cat-Box limited
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