Martijn Faassen wrote:
If I have to struggle a bit to make it safe for Python, so be it; I have plenty of experience in that area, for instance here:
which is an alternative binding to the libxml2 library for Python, with an aim to make it easy to use for Python programmers. I'm now speculating about a Python API for the XML database facilities MonetDB has (at a higher level than mapi).
We have an XML:DB driver. That is Java, but it was the best I could find. It's mainly used by eXist, which has a Python binding too, I thinkg. We're looking for something better though, since it doesn't really cover all XQuery needs. Are there existing API's for Python, or are you up to write one yourself?
I glanced at MonetDB several times over the last years and found it interesting. Now that you have the XQuery implementation I believe you have the potential to attract a lot of open source developers in using this, as there isn't much else out there has this.
We hope your are right :)