Hello Andreas, We are using the Oracle CLOBs because we can also use Oracle Text (Intermedia) to do xpath type searches in the XML data it contains. However, I can absolutely see a benefit to compressing the data in many cases.
Open Source WOO WOO! Thursday, April 4, 2002, 10:58:22 PM, you wrote: AK> Hi Russell , >> I've had a hell of a time getting cocoon 1.82 and the esql taglib to >> pull XML data stored in CLOB fields from Oracle 8.1.7 (using the >> thin Oracle driver) >> >> I decided to fix it, and happily all I had to do was add a few things >> to the esql.xsl file under src. AK> thank you for your effort ! AK> Ja, I truely need *LOB-Support. Thank you ! AK> Furthermore I have to zip the XML data, there is giant redundancy in it ... AK> If I'll succeed, I going to give it back. AK> Does anyone uses the LONGVARBINARY type ? I would prefer it because of the lack of AK> transactionality with *LOB types. AK> Greetings from Germany AK> Andreas Kuehne AK> __________________________________________________ AK> Do You Yahoo!? AK> Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax AK> http://taxes.yahoo.com/ AK> --------------------------------------------------------------------- AK> Please check that your question has not already been answered in the AK> FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> AK> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AK> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Best regards, Russell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>