Databases have been replaced by top-level Collections. The serialization is not an automated process at the moment, but the ability to introspect an object graph and produce XML is planned for a future release. A Compressed DOM Symbol Table can be defined in the system configuration for hard-coding or using standardized symbol tables. SystemCollection uses a hard-coded symbol table to store compressed symbol tables. A Gopher Service is now available, allowing Gopher-based directory and document browsing and querying of a dbXML repository.
Gopher is useful for quickly browsing to documents being stored in the repository.
The Configuration framework is essentially fully functional. A compressed Collection can be created by setting the compressed attribute to 'true' in the collection element. There are still some missing implementations, especially where DTD types are concerned, but most of the document core should work. See the User's Guide for more information. The Indexing system is getting much closer to completion.