[XML-SIG] Python access to XML datastores?

[Stuart Hungerford]

Hi all,

I've noticed a group of XML-enabled or XML-aware datastore products
appearing these days: eXcelon, db<XML>.org, etc.  There's also Metakit
which is not specifically XML, but seems very adaptable for structured
data storage.

My question is whether anyone is working on Python wrappers or interfaces
to these datastores for storing XML documents?  Such an interface or wrapper
could present a very pythonic view of a datastore that understood XML
elements, attributes and documents and handled the translation to the lower
level datatypes transparently. Perhaps it could present an XPath or XQL
interface too.

I'm no DBMS expert, but I'd guess the large DBMS vendors are working
on something similar for C/C++/Java.

Comments?

Stu