Oops! Tobias Reif <tobiasreif / pinkjuice.com> was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Austin Ziegler wrote: >> But I find that it's next to impossible to query intelligently in >> either an XMLDB > > Might be true for some people ... You're missing the point. The hype of XML is that you can modify what's in the document structure; it's got all sorts of good, crunchy metadata so that that should work out very nicely. Reality is that it's as fragile as any other sort of system, and perhaps moreso. If you change the hierarchy of the database, all the code written for the old hierarchy will have to change to reflect the new hierarchy. _Some_ changes won't require code changes; adding a field (aka slot aka frame aka element) may not require any coding changes, if it has no crucial semantic effect. But changes in hierarchy likely strike down the house of cards. The point isn't of whether you can create a query; it's of whether you can create a query that will still work after you reorder the fields or move a field to a different level of the ODBMS hierarchy. The issues aren't all that different from using relational databases, except that with relational databases, you don't normally get forced into writing code involving specific database navigation strategies. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc")) http://cbbrowne.com/info/linux.html It's hard to tell if someone is inconspicuous.