[lxml-dev] zif.sedna

[Jim Washington]

Hi, all

The Zif Collective has released to the cheese shop a python adapter to 
Sedna, an open source "native" XML database.

Sedna is available at http://modis.ispras.ru/sedna/ in binary and source 
form under an Apache 2.0 license.

Sedna stores XML in documents and collections, and can support multiple 
"databases" of related documents and collections.

Sedna has many of the features of relational databases, but instead of 
SQL it uses XQuery.  Sedna extends XQuery to support updates, inserts, 
deletes, etc.

Sedna supports ACID transactions.

zif.sedna provides communication with a Sedna server in python.

It also provides a dbapi-like interface (connections and cursors).

XQuery can be cool.  Getting your results in object form can be as 
simple as parsing in lxml.objectify.

Enjoy!

-Jim Washington