On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 10:23 -0600, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > I'd like to thank everyone here and on the 4Suite list for all the help > provided the past few days. I'm up on my feet with xml and learning > more every hour. I have been playing with xml for a few days now and am > to the point where I can dissect and process an xml document. Though I > have a lot yet to learn, my next concern is storing xml in a database. > I have read snippets that there is information to post to MySQL, I find > no index listing for xml in my MySQL reference manual. Our database of > choice is postgress, but a google of "xml" and "postess" returns about > 390,000 hits, which would take me all day to wade through :-). > > Is it possible to post an xml document to a database and, if so, does it > allow queries similar to xpath? Is documentation available and where > can I get my hands on it? I'm open to using MySQL or Postgress. Though > I have access to an Oracle database, we do not administer it and I am > certain that the owners will not let me use it for this purpose. > > I'm back to working on dissecting rather complex xml documents (health > care claim data in EDI X12 format). Any information you could provide > to my above questions would be greatly appreciated.
Using the 4Suite repository you can store XML documents to a flexible back-end (actual back end can be Postgres, MySQL, or, very soon, Berkeley DB XML). You can then use XSLT very naturally to extract data from the stored documents. It also has a built-in Web server, but I've personally been "deprecating" it in favor of a more dedicated protocol server such as CherryPy. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/amara.html Gems from the Mines: 2002 to 2003 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/02/pyxml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 Querying WordNet as XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think29.html Packaging XSLT lookup tables as EXSLT functions - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook2.html _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
