9iFS and XMLType

Hi all,

I was wondering if anybody tried storing and retrieving XML data from iFS through the XMLType datatype. I want to use iFS's content management features (ACL's, etc), but I want to be able to query the XML data that I store through simple SQL queries using XMLType's extract() and existsNode() methods.

What I am trying to accomplish is basically running XPath queries on XML documents stores in iFS by first retrieving the necessary documents from iFS, and then running XPath on them. When not using iFS, I can simply use SQL queries with XMLType's functionality to obtain the necessary documents, convert them to DOM's, and run an XPath query on them. How would I go about doing this when using iFS? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

• Jeff