[Typo3-dev] DBAL and postgres

[Daniel Pötzinger]

> 
> My main project (for personal interested) is to make ObTS work with an 
> XML version of TypoScript - TSML!
Sounds interesting. I will have an further look at your ObTS, it looks 
interesting too.

> 
> Would be interesting to see what you find. You're right that xpath in 
> dbal makes no sense but xpath in the query language does - which is why 
> postgres looked interesting.
I have no experience with XPATH in Postgres, without having a further 
look at my oppinion is that the concept of XPATH in an relational DB has 
some contradictions.
-> I think it is no standart, so it is just in PostgresSQL
-> XML is embedded in normal "Text" types in the DB, I think there is no 
optimization (means it has the same effect to select the text and query 
it with SAX or DOM..)
But of course it may be useful to use XPATH in a query.

I think it would be cool to have a general API for SAX, DOM, XSLT and 
optional a connection to real XML DB like eXist for XQUERY 
(http://exist.sourceforge.net/) (for storing real XML semistructured 
datas, such as RDF and MPEG7 - who knows perhaps it is an advantage for 
the future.)

greetings