XML:DB API
Compatibility with the XML:DB API paradigm
| General Requirements |
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| Language Independence - The API MUST NOT preclude the usage with more than one language binding. | IB provides a large number of languages bindings including C++, Tcl, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, C#) |
| Textual Interface - The API MUST provide a textual representation of XML result sets. | Yes. |
| XML-API Interface - The API SHOULD provide a SAX or DOM based representation of XML result sets. | A SAX or DOM based representation of the XML result sets is available via loading the XML representation of the result sets into DOM |
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