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XML Databases

Forest

Forest is a (native) XML database written in Python. It is intended to support fast queries of XML data.

https://svn.infrae.com/old/forest/

4ODS

www.4suite.org/ (website gone)

xsdbXML

http://xsdb.sourceforge.net/

BaseX

BaseX is a light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML Database engine and XPath/XQuery 3.0 Processor, including highly conformant support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. The system provides a Python client API:

http://www.basex.org

http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Clients

https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-api/tree/master/src/main/python


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