On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, William Billingsley wrote: > > Sorry to ply you with questions - I'm a little new to the XML database > area. > > So is XUpdate dead as a standard, or is just that particular codebase > not getting updated? If it's dead as a standard, has anything > particular replaced it, or just proprietary database-implementation > specific solutions?
Not really sure about the XUpdate stuff any more. Still using it untill something new comes along. > > Actually, generally I've noticed the three main open source XML > databases (Xindice, dbXML, eXist) all seem to have only one developer > each. I'm finding this a bit bizarre - in this era of web services and > everybody seeming to build on XML in one way or another, I was a bit > surprised to find so little momentum behind any of them. What are > people actually using, or are they just avoiding XML in the database? > > (apologies for the break in the thread - my prev email accidentally went > off list and only to Todd) > I have had really good luck with sleepycat so far. Looks like they have made an all java implementation of there DB code so looking forward to when/if they port there XML code over to a pure java implementation. Todd
