As a way to learn more about the various XML technologies, I am working on a project to provide XML versions of various D&D and D20 rules and expansions (new spells, feats, classes...).
My concern has been efficiently storing, searching and recalling such XML files. I haven't come across a suitable tool (Open Source and Free as in Beer) to do this. So I started writing a module that takes an arbitrary XML file, parses it and stuffs it into a database. Once in the database I can use the more familiar SQL for searches.
Now as cool as I think this module could be... I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. But I don't know the toolsets available well enough to find a better method. I'm pretty convinced that a straight flat file format is going to break under the load because of the size (1000's of Feats and Spells, 100's of classes) and the fact that it is a growing dataset
I'm planning to use AxKit to actually serve the data, but how do I store it? Any insights would be invaluable.Thanks for your time!
You might want to have a look at Sleepycat's Berkeley DB XML, which looks promising, although it doesn't have a Perl interface.
Re:XML data base
merrells on 2003-05-13T18:21:52
The latest release of dbxml includes a Perl API:-)
