RE: [xsl] Paradigm clash between XML as document and as database

[Karsten Senz <K dot Senz at intershop dot de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Franz [mailto:snowhare@nihongo.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:02 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Paradigm clash between XML as document and as
> database
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Christopher P. Wang wrote:
> > 
> > You may want to check out the Tamino database product from 
> Software AG.
> 
> I did. It appears document-centric: They provide indexes to *find*
> documents for their own query language and some internal (non-XSLT)
> transformational output - but not to accelerate XPath/XSLT in 
> general as
> far as I can tell. Additionally, documents are stored as 
> units. They have
> a servlet that fakes by node updating - but it apparently 
> actually reads
> and writes the whole document to do it. I am still talking 
> with them, but
> I am not especially hopeful about it.
>
> [...]
> 
> I also checked out X-Hive (which suffers from the same problems) and
> looked at Ozone (which is promising, but way too 
> developmental to use for
> production).


Hi Benjamin,

Have you checked out Excelon Portalserver? It's working on the ObjectStore
object database.


Karsten

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