Re: PostgreSQL and XML support

I have XML support in PostgreSQL in my Todo
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/todo
Hopefully, we'll have something for 8.2

Oleg
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Doug Bloebaum wrote:

> On 9/6/05, Andrey Fomichev <fomichev(at)ispras(dot)ru> wrote:
>>
>> - Are there any of you who need to store and query XML data?
>
> - Do you already use PostgreSQL to store XML data or you are
>> just thinking about it?
>
>
> The project I'm currently working on uses XML for both data extraction from
> Postgres and as a means to transmit data to Postgres for storage.
>
> - If you store XML data in PostgreSQL, how do you do it? What tool
>> do you use?
>
>
> We're using Oracle's XSQL servlet (
> http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/appdev.101/b10794/adx09xsq.htm)
> with Apache tomcat (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/) as its servlet
> container. The only change we've made to XSQL is the addition of a custom
> tag (<xsql:pg-func>) in order to make use of Postgres functions returning
> REF CURSOR. Aside from that, we're using XSQL out-of-the-box.
>
> Granted, we're not really manipulating XML within the database, rather we're
> using XML as a sort of database-neutral interface.
>
> - Do you need some advanced query capabilities? Like XQuery, XPath 2.0
>
>
> No.
>
> - Do you need some advanced update capabilities? Like node-level updates
>
>
> No.
>

Regards,
Oleg
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