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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:37:48 +0100
From: mats <mats@alma.nu>
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Hi,
I noticed that Sleepycat has released Berkeley DB XML 2.0.
I was just wondering if anyone on the list has any input on wether it 
can or cannot be used as a backend/store implementation for the rabbit?

It supports XQuery, XPath2.0 and has different types of containers for 
adding documents:
* Wholedoc Containers - The container contains entire documents; the 
documents are stored "as is" without any manipulation of line breaks or 
whitespace.
* Node containers - XmlDocuments are stored as individual nodes in the 
container. That is, each record in the underlying database contains a 
single leaf node, its attributes and attribute values if any, and its 
text nodes, if any. BDB XML also keeps the information it needs to 
reassemble the document from the individual nodes stored in the 
underlying databases.

http://www.sleepycat.com/xml_update/2.0.7/relnote.2.0.7.html

/Mats