[TYPO3-dev] flexform, xml query, XPath, MySQL 5.1

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] dmitry at typo3.org
Wed Sep 5 16:32:04 CEST 2007


Hi!

Fabien Udriot wrote:
> Flexforms are a easy mean to generate interfaces and to store data into 
> the database. *BUT* is there a way to query these data ?  Does anyone 
> has experience with that ?
> 
> It seems that the next version of MySQL (5.1) will provide a way to 
> query XML according to theses 2 links.

There is one problem. When flexform is returned as array, you are 
guarantied to have the same array structure. However internally flexform 
can be saved in various xml formats (two for now). So it will not be 
easy to query.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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