Background: Xindice (formerly dbXML as it is being moved to the Apache Foundation) is an open source native XML database server intended to manage large numbers of small XML documents. The documents are stored in collections and the server provides the ability to query these collections using XPath.
The Post: I have been using Xindice for about 5 months and have had a lot of success with it. I have written an admin/developer client in CF for the server as well as a set of custom tags that allows developers to interrogate the server (open/insert/update/query/delete XML documents) that I will be posting on the Allaire/Macromedia dev exchange in a day or two. When combining this server and custom tag set with the Torchbox XML Toolkit and/or Brett Suwyn's CF_SOXML, you can quickly build some radical applications (even something hybrid such as a SQL JOIN between an XML doc from the Xindice Server and SQL Server - I've done it!). In addition, I have written an article on downloading and installing the Xindice server and XML-RCP plugin, the Xindice XML-RPC API, and integrating with CF that will also be freely available. You can learn more about and download Xindice (still being called dbXML until 1.0) at: http://www.dbxml.org Screenshots of the admin: http://209.192.70.50/dbxml/index.htm A couple of notes: The open and query results are displayed using a modified version of cf_dump, which generates a large number of nested tables and is fairly slow. Access to the Xindice server is via XML-RPC. Also, for anyone that is interested I am working on a PHP version of the client along with either a Class object or UDF's. If you would like to help with either project (the first client interfaces that I know of), they are both on SourceForge or you can contact me off of the list. Kurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
