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Re: Fwd: XML Server

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Ann Tecklenburg wrote:
> I have checked out the mail archives, etc. on this project:
> 
> It would be nice if somebody would write an "ideal" XML server,
> but I don't think this will be the one.
> 
> IMHO, SQL is the *wrong* choice for a QL for XML and
This one is clear ;)

But there is a small"but". SoftwareAG, a german database company, has been
providing its database software for 20+ years I think. So they seem to be very
experienced with database development. They never started an OODBMS - but the
_have_ a XML server called tamino. (somewhere at http://www.softwareag.com)
So SQL is indeed the wrong choice but maybe not the whole relational thing.

Don't get me wrong, we are here to make a pure OO, pure Java database! ;)

> the W3C seems to agree here, and they have  IMHO a poor
> design for their engine.   They appear to be *not*
> interested in Java, but in C++.
As far as I see, most of the w3c specs depend on Java.Is there any chance to a
C++ based XML server whatever?

> Also, I checked out the dbXML project:  its barely gotten
> started and is also in C++.
> 
> The whole Apache.org effort is much more interesting.
Perfectly agree in general. But in the Cocoon (Java Apache Web publishing
framework) mailing list there is a discussion about a "XML repository". Today
cocoon is DOM based but they decided to use SAX instead of DOM to be able to
handle huge documents on small computers. In other words: provide a scalable
solution. To mee it seems that they do not believe that something like a
persistent DOM can be done. I known this cannot be the reason but I got this
impression.

Zvi is a member of the cocoon list and is more experienced with cocoon than
me. Zvi, can you clarify this a bit? 

Anyway, we should try to come up with some working code to be able to show
something instead of only talking. That's why I stoped posting to the cocoon
list.


Falko
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