On 25 Mar 2003 at 17:25, jwcanada wrote:

>Anyone has any thought about any features about xml support in RDBMS.

AFAIK XML is a plain text format.

>-- XML Document storage
>-- Retrieve

Don't see any problem for saving XML documents into TEXT BLOB.

>-- Query
>-- Transform

What does it mean?

>It would be killing features if Firebird can provide direct support
>for xml.

Yes. I agree that it may kill Firebird. ;)

IMHO, XML is too young to be considered seriously.

SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.