Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-02-16 Thread Matthias Brantner
I know this has been discussed several times and it seems the conclusin was it's impossible if we would like to use existing XQuery external modules (some are by license reasons and some are by techinical reasons). So it seems the only way to support XQuery is, developing our own XQuery

Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-02-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Matthias Brantner wrote: I know this has been discussed several times and it seems the conclusin was it's impossible if we would like to use existing XQuery external modules (some are by license reasons and some are by techinical reasons). So it seems the only way to support XQuery is,

Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-02-16 Thread Scott Bailey
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Matthias Brantner wrote: I know this has been discussed several times and it seems the conclusin was it's impossible if we would like to use existing XQuery external modules (some are by license reasons and some are by techinical reasons). So it seems the only way to

Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Bailey arta...@comcast.net writes: If it were possible to drop the xerces dependency from Zorba and use libxml2 for parsing, that would be a strong case for it. The other big dependency for Zorba was ICU for converting character sets. I'm not familiar with that part of Postgres. But

Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-02-16 Thread Matthias Brantner
Well, maybe you can answer the questions I had last time I looked at it, namely: XQuery is a whole other question. Adding another library dependency is something we try to avoid. Zorba http://www.zorba-xquery.com/ might work, but it appears to have its own impressive list of dependencies

Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-02-16 Thread Matthias Brantner
I've been playing around with Zorba and xQilla today. I couldn't actually get Zorba to build on my system. It looks like the two share a common (or similar) C API though. Yes, Zorba and XQilla both implement the XQC API. It was developed by the Zorba and XQilla teams in a joint effort. The

Re: [HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Bailey
Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Hi, I know this has been discussed several times and it seems the conclusin was it's impossible if we would like to use existing XQuery external modules (some are by license reasons and some are by techinical reasons). So it seems the only way to support XQuery is,

[HACKERS] XQuery support

2010-01-19 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Hi, I know this has been discussed several times and it seems the conclusin was it's impossible if we would like to use existing XQuery external modules (some are by license reasons and some are by techinical reasons). So it seems the only way to support XQuery is, developing our own XQuery