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Author Stephen Blackheath
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Readme for BerkeleyDBXML-0.1

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Berkeley DB / Berkeley DB/XML binding for Haskell
Version 0.1  23 Sep 2008
by Stephen Blackheath

email me: http://blacksapphire.com/antispam/
darcs repository: http://blacksapphire.com/BerkeleyDBXML/


Berkeley DB/XML is a powerful, fully transactional, XML-based database that uses
XQuery as its query language.  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.  In a future version
of this package I will give some examples.

This package is in its very early stages, and needs some work, but it should
allow you to write a fairly serious application.  If you find some part of the
API that is missing, and would like it added, please contact me.

I hope this package helps make Haskell better.  I am partly motivated by a
belief that SQL is holding us back.  An advanced language should have an
advanced database.

If you just want Berkeley DB without Berkeley DB/XML, you should be able to
achieve this easily by modifying the BerkeleyDBXML.cabal file.  The Berkeley DB
parts do not depend on the Berkeley DB/XML parts.  Some time I will make this
easier.

To install, use the standard Cabal install procedure:

runhaskell Setup.hs configure
runhaskell Setup.hs build
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:

runhaskell Setup.hs configure \
    --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/dbxml-2.4.13/include/dbxml/ \
    --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/dbxml-2.4.13/lib/

Cabal does not seem to check these very well. If you get the lib directory
wrong, you won't find out until you try to build the examples.

See the examples/ directory.