[November 03, 2000] "RAX is a simple, record-oriented API for XML. It provides a simple, efficient interface for processing the sort of XML often generated from databases."
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RAX main web site
[June 14, 2000] New Web Site for RAX. Sean McGrath (Digitome) recently reported that Rael Dornfest has taken over development and maintenance of RAX, which is now available on a new web site. RAX (Record API for XML) is characterized as a "a drop dead simple API allowing 'pull' processing of record-oriented XML. [It] provides a simple, efficient interface for processing the sort of XML often generated from databases. RAX was first described in the article "RAX: An XML Database API", by Sean McGrath. RAX consists of two very simple interfaces. RAX implementations are currently available in Python (rax.py - by Sean McGrath) Perl (XML::RAX - by Robert Hanson), and PHP (PRAX - by Rael Dornfest)."
[May 03, 2000] RAX: An XML Database API. Sean McGrath (Digitome) has announced a new version of 'RAX', now supported by a RAX web site. RAX (Record API for XML) is a "simple, record-oriented API for XML which provides a simple, efficient interface for processing the sort of XML often generated from databases. RAX processes the PYX notation for parsed XML; PYX generators are freely available from http://www.pyxie.org: (a) xmln to generate PYX using non-validating XML parse, and (b) xmlv to generate PYX using validating XML parse." Sean says: "I have added writing capabilities so you can now use RAX as a 'pull API' for read/write XML applications. Simply put, you can read records, modify them and write them out again as XML. RAX is intended to present programmers with a drop-dead easy API for processing record-oriented XML. The reference implementation or RAX is Python but it should be very easy to port it to other languages. Contributions to the evolution of RAX and contributions in other languages are hereby solicited." McGrath's RAX was recently introduced in an article "RAX: An XML Database API." Earlier, [2000-04-29] Robert Hanson posted an announcement describing a supporting Perl module XML::RAX. The module XML::RAX requires XML::Parser.
