Saturday, February 2, 2002

Dare Obasanjo has posted his work on SiXDML. This is a SQL inspired query language tailored for native XML databases. We were talking about this on the XML:DB list a while back and Dare did a great job jumping on it and coming up with a first draft. The language basically takes the XML:DB API, XML:DB XUpdate and SQL and merges them together into something that is simpler to understand. It isn't as powerful as XQuery for straight queries, but teams with XQuery to fill a lot of the gaping holes that XQuery has from the perspective of native XML databases. Paper Demo API docs Dare's current demo runs on top of Excelon and we're currently exploring an implementations for Xindice. 7:09:41 PM     Hey, I liked the theme Clark chose so much I decided to use it too. Ironically, it uses CSS also. Or well it looks fine in Omniweb. Hopefully it degrades nicely for other browsers as well. It doesn't use positioning which is what is the biggest source of problems so it should be ok. 6:14:01 PM

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Resume:

Software:

Xindice (Formally dbXML)

Xindice XML-RPC Interface

Xindice HTTP Interface

XML:DB API Reference Implementation

Jive XML Database Port

FreeDB CD Database to XML Data Generator

Writing:

Introduction to Native XML Databases (xml.com)

Introduction to dbXML (xml.com)

An Introduction to the XML:DB API (xml.com)

Xindice Users Guide

Xindice Developers Guide

Xindice Administrators Guide

XML:DB API Specification

XML:DB API Use Cases

XUpdate Use Cases

ICEPick Peer to Peer Personalization

Presentations:

Native XML Databases Why Bother?
(HTML) (Powerpoint)