Sean McGrath's RAX proposal, featured on XML.com last week, has already attracted a Perl implementation, by Robert Hanson.

RAX, the Record-oriented API for XML, provides a simple programming interface to database-generated XML. It can be used in situations where the full power of SAX and DOM is overkill; namely when the structure of the XML is "flat" as opposed to a tree.

RAX builds on McGrath's earlier work with Pyxie, his initial implementation having been written in Python. If RAX attracts implementations with the same speed that Pyxie's PYX notation did, we can expect support in Java and other languages pretty soon!

XML::RAX can be downloaded from its temporary home.