Chapter 26
XML Support
Abstract
This chapter begins with an overview of XML. It then discusses how SQL provides XML support, including functions for creating XML documents from stored database data, and using the XML data type.
Keywords
XML
SQL
SQL XML extensions
XML schemas
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a way of representing data and data relationships in text files. Because such UNICODE1 text files have become widespread and are usually platform independent, XML is being used heavily for data transfer, especially between databases and the Web.
As you will see, XML shares some characteristics with HTML. However, the two markup languages have very different goals. HTML is designed to give instructions to a browser about how to display ...
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