Chapter 14
SQL and XML
EXtensible Markup Language (XML), a meta-markup language developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996, is widely used as a standard means of exchanging data over the Internet. XML uses HTML-like tags and attributes to structure data. Tags in XML allow developers to define data items and their relationships. Most relational database products, like Oracle, are now XML enabled. XML-enabled databases provide the capability to transfer data between XML documents and the data structures of a database.
This chapter is intended to be an introductory chapter of examples using SQL and XML. Our goal in this chapter is to introduce XML and illustrate a connection between XML and Oracle databases. The XML extension in Oracle ...
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