[XML4Lib] native xml databases and/or XQuery?

[Kevin S. Clarke]

On 8/17/06, marc <marc at indexdata.dk> wrote:
>
> However, it is my personal experience that XPATH and XQUERY allone are
> not always sufficent to drive patrons information retrieval needs, which
> may require a combination of those XML structured access methods with
> full-text search and relevance ranking as well.

Hi, yes, I agree.

Currently, many native xml databases provide their own fulltext
extensions (as I think you mentioned) and there is a fulltext XQuery
spec on the way (which you, again, mentioned).

Where I work, we use a (closed source) native xml database and extend
its functionality with things like Lucene (so there is an IR layer
that hands off results to the XQuery layer).

I've received a couple private emails asking me to summarize for the
list, so if people want to respond here that is fine too.  It is up to
you.

Also, maybe I should have been clearer, we use a native xml database
already; I am just curious about how/if others are doing it.

Thanks,
Kevin