Date: Jan. 24, 2001
Link: http://exist.sourceforge.net/
Source Author or Organization: Wolfgang M. Meier

This page provides a technical overview and download link for eXist, a repository and retrieval engine for XML documents that is built on a relational database system (currently upon MySQL). The engine does not require knowledge about the document's Document Type Definition (DTD) or schema, yet provides structured retrieval of arbitrary xml documents with support for full text search.

eXist has a near-DOM-complaint implementation and also implements about "60-70%" of the XPath specification.

A demo database where 38 works of Shakespeare, Homers "Illiad", and other texts are available for retrieval tests is browsable at http://exist.sourceforge.net/query.html.

Other developers are invited to contribute.