I would like to see PostgreSQL eventually support XQuery: http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ http://www.w3.org/TR/query-datamodel/
I see potentially an alternative front end called xsql, providing substantially the same functionality as psql, only using XQuery syntax and optionally returning recordsets as XML. Anybody want to put together a team to explore this seriously? There are probably several non-trivial semantic issues on the back end, but I only dimly grasp them at this point. - Bob Calco %% -----Original Message----- %% From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] %% [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Merlin Moncure %% Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:16 AM %% To: Alan Gutierrez %% Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] %% Subject: Re: [HACKERS] XML ouput for psql %% %% %% XSLT could be used to convert virtually any xml table format directly %% into an insert statement. For me, this is better than using a %% programming language plus a parser. XSLT is quite powerful and fast and %% is build on top of xpath, and is a closer fit to the declarative %% programming model of sql. Validation could be done at the xslt stage or %% with schemas, which I prefer. %% %% %% > Acually, the difficult part has been getting the information back %% > into the database. Getting it out is a very simple query. I imagine %% > that every language/environment has an SQL->XML library somewhere, %% > but I wasn't able to find something that would go from XML to SQL. %% > %% %% ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- %% TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate %% subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your %% message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
