[Typo3-dev] TYPO3 and native XML Databases

dan frost dan at danfrost.co.uk
Mon Oct 17 15:37:42 CEST 2005


postgres has a patch (or module, or similar - not 
sure) for this.

You can do stuff like e.g.

Select from someTable where 
xpath(myXmlField,"/the/xml/path/to/my/tag");

Pretty nice

dan

Sven Wilhelm wrote:
>> What exactely is a "native XML Database"?
>> Sounds like an XML file to me.
> 
> No it is a little bit more :)
> In a native xml database you store many xml documents together in so 
> called collections. You can query the database by XPATH or - the more 
> modern one - XQuery. See it like sql requests for xml.
> 
>> Maybe DBAL offers handling for this
> 
> not at the moment.




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