Re: XQuery support

From: Matthias Brantner <matthias(dot)brantner(at)28msec(dot)com>
To: Scott Bailey <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: XQuery support
Date: 2010-02-16 17:47:25
Message-ID: 7DDDB18E-041F-4238-B91D-3277EB1CE5BC@28msec.com
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>> 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 functionality from scratch. I'm wondering if other people reach
>> the same conclusion as me, or is it a totaly impossible project?

> Well xquilla on top of xerces should get us pretty much were we need to go. They are both under the Apache 2 license, which I believe would be ok. But they are C++ so I don't know if we could use them.
> I found Zorba, its C++ and Apache 2. But I don't know much about it. But it looks promising.
> http://www.zorba-xquery.com/
Sounds like a great project. Please, let us know (zorba-users(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net) if you need any help or have questions with regard to plugging Zorba to PostGreSQL. We would love to see this happen and help.

Best regards,

Matthias

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