@hackage BerkeleyDBXML0.6

Berkeley DB / Berkeley DB XML binding for Haskell Version 0.6 5 Jan 2009 by Stephen Blackheath

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Berkeley DB XML is a powerful, fully transactional, XML-based database that uses XQuery as its query language. It is NOT an SQL database. You can download it here:

http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml/index.html

This package provides a Haskell binding for Berkeley DB XML. It is a tolerable subset of the API, and I hope to improve it over time. I have stuck closely to the C++ API, with some minor changes where a Haskell idiom seemed appropriate. I hope that people will develop higher level wrappers for it. I have had great success with the "pickler" interfaces in the HXT library. See the adventure example in the examples/ directory.

The binding is only about 70% complete, but it should allow you to write a fairly serious application. If you would like a particular part of the API added, please contact me.

To install, use the standard Cabal install procedure:

sudo cabal install

or

sudo runhaskell Setup.hs install

If Berkeley DB or DB XML is not installed in the default location of /usr or /usr/local, you will need to specify the paths in this way:

sudo cabal install
--extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/dbxml-2.4.16/include/
--extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/dbxml-2.4.16/include/dbxml/
--extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/dbxml-2.4.16/lib/

See the examples/ directory for examples.