XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems
by Akmal B. Chaudhri, Awais Rashid, Roberto Zicari
7.2. XML and Relational Data
Over the past few years, XML and the languages/vocabularies defined with XML have established themselves as the most prevalent and promising lingua franca of business-to-business, business-to-consumer, or generally, any-to-any data interchange and integration. One of the major reasons for the emergence of XML in this space is that XML is a simple, platform-independent, Unicode-based syntax for which simple and efficient parsers are widely available. Another important factor in favor of XML is its ability to not only represent structured data, but to provide a uniform syntax for structured data, semi-structured data (data that is sparse or is of heterogeneous types), and marked-up content.
A large amount of the data ...
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