Re: module for XML databases

Lukas Smith wrote:

[...] Well not really ... LDAP is a hierarchal database and therefore they do follow a very different philosophy and you do query them differently. That is why the PEAR DB Ldap driver is not complete. XML databases as far as I know are probably a little more similar to LDAP in that you also have trees, but they also have their own twist which make them useful in very different situations than LDAP. But depending on the needs it might still make sense to have drivers for XML DB's and LDAP especially if you want to leverage your existing code/know how more easily.

XML database are closer to LDAP than to RDBMS. But learning from the Java ppl it is obvious that something like an abstraction layer for XML databases a la "XML:DB API" is the better approach than integrating everything in one API. You have X-Hive, eXists, Tamino, Xindice, Oracle/XML and a bunch of others already out or to come in the very future. They have already differences though being XDBs. So putting these group of things into MDB is blowing it up. jm2c -moh