a message for the SapDB visionnaire in chief

   I was looking at SapDB's source code and it seemed
as if there was an effort at supporting XML storing, quering, and
indexing capabilities at some point. From what I understand
the goal of this was to supply a back end for WebDAV capabilities.

   Now, the suggestion : How about exposing the XPath querying
(it seems to be there already, just a hidden feature), and
adding something like XUpdate for updating ?

  There is a similar project going on with postgres :

  http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/xpsql/projdisplay.php

  And of course Oracle and DB2 have it in the form of SQL extensions
where one can put an xpath expression in a where clause, etc...

  As a first step, just exposing the existing XML 
storing/querying/indexing capabilities would seem like an
easy enough thing to do, no ?

  Another alternative could be to allow WebDAV operations to occur
withih the scope of an (sapDB) transaction, almost as good...