Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

What about Databases?

I feel obliged to say something about using XML with databases (probably for no reason other than one of my editors suggested it to me!). However, in a book that I've tried to make general and not specific to any product it's awfully hard to say very much about database support for XML. The latest versions of most major relational database management systems (RDBMSs) have some degree of XML support. Some of it is fairly sophisticated. The hitch is that there isn't a standard way to support XML in an RDBMS. Given that state of affairs, I offer two pieces of advice. The first is that you should review the features of your particular product and see if it offers the functionality you need. The second is to be aware that if ...