17. XML Support
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a way of representing data and data relationships in text files. Because such UNICODE 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 a page. XML, in contrast, is designed to describe the structure of data and to facilitate moving that data from one place to another.
Relational databases can use XML in three ways:
◊ Import XML documents and store the data in one or more relations: At this time, such ...
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