August 05, 2005

DB XML at OSCON

Dan Brian covered Berkeley DB XML in his talk at the Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday. George Schlossnagle also talked about DB XML and PHP applications on the Thursday. You can download their slides here and here.

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July 15, 2005

FAQ - How can I get command line editing for the DB XML shell?

I recommend you use a small program called rlwrap:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rlwrap/

which will give you command line history, and bash style command line editing. You use it like this:

rlwrap dbxml [command line args here]

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June 06, 2005

XML Journal Article

Berkeley DB XML appears in an XML Journal article entitled "Use a Native XML Database for Your XML Data"

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May 31, 2005

XTech Last Week

Many apologies for my absence from last week - my feable excuse is that my passport ran out. I have recieved suitable derision from both my colleagues and my wife for my lack of common sense!

Many thanks however to Andy Wood, who stepped in at the last hour to take the talk for me. It seems to have gone really well - he's even been blogged.

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Berkeley DB XML 2.1.8 Released

As of today, the released version of BDB XML 2.1 is 2.1.8. 2.1.8 is binary and source compatible with 2.1.7, previously released. 2.1.8 replaces 2.1.7.

To see the change log for version 2.1.8, click here.

2.1.8 addresses these specific issues:

  • support for gcc 4.0. There were both compilation and run-time failures, mostly reported on OS X Tiger [#12527]
  • fixed a bug where an entity in an attribute value was not being expanded during document serialization if a child node had been added to that element via direct DOM manipulation or XmlModify[#12489]
  • fixed a bug where a DOM assertion failure would occur when asking for a specific item from a DOM nodelist. [#12481]
  • fixed a Perl refcount bug where there could be a crash if an object created by an XmlManager outlived the XmlManager itself.

There are a also a few general performance enhancements in query processing.

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May 03, 2005

Parthenon .NET API for Berkeley DB XML 2.1.7 Released

Parthenon Computing is pleased to announce the release of the Parthenon .NET API for Berkeley DB XML.

If you feel more at home with .NET and Visual Studio than with C++, or your current project has a .NET requirement, but still need a powerful and performant XQuery compliant XML database, then this is the solution.

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