Re: Class Proposal: DB_DOM or XML_DBDOM

OK, now we have three +1, we need five of them - as far as I know - to make it a PEAR package, so here's a short commercial to win two more +1 for the DB_DOM / DB_XML class system :) You might ask yourself: "Why do I need a class that help's me store data in a DOM-like manner in a database?" Well, actually, it does not always make sense, because accessing a deeply nested XML tree stored in a DB table might eat up quite a lot of server resources. On the other hand, it can help you to handle the structure of big XML documents in a transparent way (that's the DOM API of our class) and also reasonable way as far as performance is concerned. For example, our class is perfectly suited if you want to work with DocBook XML documents inside a CMS: Simply build a tree of the document's structure (i.e. the chapters + sections) in the DB table with the DB_DOM / DB_XML class. The content of the section itself (the "blocks" in DocBook lingua like para, blockquote, abstract, ...) are stored as a whole as the content of the 'section' node. Now you can send the contents to the user for display/manipulation and back to the DB. We already started to work on import routines for XML documents into the DB table, and also on export routines to get an XML document from the DB table. Enough reasons to give two more +1 ? :) Sandro On Dienstag, 10. September 2002 20:11, Sandro Zic wrote: > So we got two +1, does that mean we can start PEARifying/optimising the > classes and then commit them to the CVS? Or do we need more +1s? > > Sandro > > On Sonntag, 8. September 2002 15:00, Lukas Smith wrote: > > I am just browsing through your tutorial. > > I would go with DB_XML as the name. > > > > Anyways +1 after a very brief look. > > > > regards, > > Lukas > > > > PS: This seems to be another candidate that could make great use of the > > MDB RDBMS independent schema management. > > > > http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=MDB > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Sandro Zic [mailto:Sandro.Zic@oc4ware.org] > > > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 1:00 PM > > > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net > > > Cc: Marc Aßmann > > > Subject: [PEAR-DEV] Class Proposal: DB_DOM or XML_DBDOM > > > > > > As part of the oc4ware project, Marc Aßmann has written a class that > > > > let's > > > > > you > > > store data in a DOM-like fashion in a RDBMS. The class is built upon > > > PEAR::DB. In general, the API has been designed as analogues to the > > > > PHP > > > > > DOM > > > XML extension API (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.domxml.php) as > > > possible. > > > > > > Concerning the propsed name, I am not sure if this class would better > > > > fit > > > > > in > > > PEAR as a package named 'DB_DOM' or 'XML_DBDOM'. > > > > > > A brief tutorial is available at > > > > > > http://www.oc4ware.org/publications_server/index.php?number=22de1 > > > > > > You can browse the source code of DB_DOM in our CVS at > > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi- > > > bin/viewcvs.cgi/oc4ware/liboc4ware/DB_DOM/2/ > > > > > > Cheers! > > > Sandro > > > > > > -- > > > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php