Ray,

Please take this question to the firebird-support list.

Thanks,
^Helen

At 01:09 PM 13/04/2005 -0400, you wrote:

>Are there any user defined Firebird functions (Windows/Linux) for
>reading/parsing XML?
>I've not been able to find anything in Google (and Helen's book
>doesn't mention XML).
>
>What I want to do (and what I'm currently doing in Oracle) is hand an
>XML document off to a package and let the package parse the
>information from the XML.
>
>This is incredibly handy for passing complex parameters from a
>program into the database.
>
>I currently have a request to build several applications targeting
>both Oracle and Firebird as deployment databases. The Oracle
>implementation uses packages and XML passing to isolate applications
>from internal database changes. I'd like to take a similar approach
>with Firebird.
>
>I know there's several libraries out there I could probably wrap into
>my own UDF, but I first want to see if I'd be reinventing an existing
>solution.
>
>--Ray
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