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by HannesB
Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:41 pm
Forum: Databases
Topic: BaseX (XML databases)
Replies: 5
Views: 2250

Re: BaseX (XML databases)

Dear Weirdan, I've mainly used BaseX to make existing large XML instances browsable and queryable, e.g. the DBLP [1], or some commercial MedLine data [2]. Some years ago, I had a first look at XML databases; at that time, only systems like eXist and Tamino were available, which were painfully slow a...
by HannesB
Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:33 pm
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: XML database experiences
Replies: 16
Views: 9597

Re: XML database experiences

…seems that this thread is more about ideologies than the appropriate technology. I've come across numerous scenarios in which XML data is converted to various representations and eventually back to XML, in which case it would perfectly make sense to stay in the XML world via XQuery. XML databases, ...
by HannesB
Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:48 pm
Forum: Databases
Topic: BaseX (XML databases)
Replies: 5
Views: 2250

Re: BaseX (XML databases)

Thanks for your answer and the details on your solution! What I like about BaseX is the possibility of importing really large XML documents, and to query them via XQuery Full Text – a features that does not seem to be natively supported by many other XML-enabled or native databases. And it seems to ...
by HannesB
Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:47 am
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Best PHP module for XQuery?
Replies: 2
Views: 283

Re: Best PHP module for XQuery?

In 2011, I would recommend BaseX!
by HannesB
Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:43 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: BaseX (XML databases)
Replies: 5
Views: 2250

BaseX (XML databases)

Hi all, As we know, MySQL is quite limited when it comes to natively process XML data ans use XPath and XQuery. The XML database BaseX (http://basex.org) seems to offer comfortable APIs to query XML documents via XPath/XQuery, including Full Text requests… http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Standard_Mode ht...