Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

[removing -patches since no patch was attached]

Mark Woodward wrote:

>I have a fairly simple extension I want to add to contrib. It is an XML
>parser that is designed to work with a specific dialect.
>
>I have a PHP extension called xmldbx, it allows the PHP system to
>serialize its web session data to an XML stream. (or just serialize
>variables) PHP's normal serializer is a non-standard home grown format
>that it impossile to read. The xmldbx format may not be too much easier,
>but I have a format document for it. I also have a PostgreSQL extension
>that can take serialized data and use it in a query, like:
>
>select xmldbx('data.userdata.id', sessions.data);
>
>If the PHP variable has $userdata['id'] set to some varible in its session
>data, it will be returned.
>
>This allows a lot of flexability and a tight integration between
>PostgreSQL and PHP.
>
>
>  
>

This sounds highly specialised, and probably more appropriate for a 
pgfoundry project.

In any case, surely the whole point about XML is that you shouldn't need 
to contruct custom parsers. Should we include a specialised parser for 
evey XML dialect someone might want to store in the database?

cheers

andrew