Ok, the title is a mouthful, but since I had to piece things together from various posts, I figured I save somebody else the trouble if they need to do it as well!
Let’s begin with a quick introduction in case you found this page by coincidence and you’d like to learn more. Sedna is an open source XML Database that is licensed under Apache License 2.0 . An XML Database can store, query, and update XML data natively using XQuery FLWOR expressions . This is particularly useful if you’re working with semi-structured data. Aside from being able to manage a native XML Database, Sedna can also connect via ODBC to other databases and expose their data in a simple XML format. This can be especially useful if you want to convert a relational database, such as MySQL , to an XML Database, such as Sedna. That should cover the basics. The final part is that this guide uses OS X 10.5 x86 (Leopard), which may or may not matter to you. Finally, you’ll probably need to install the OS X development tools since we’ll need to compile the Sedna source code to enable SQL support (something about GPL code contamination or other). Now, let’s go!
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