XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems
by Akmal B. Chaudhri, Awais Rashid, Roberto Zicari
14.7. Conclusion
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is evolving as a standard digital systems language for representing, exchanging, sharing, and publishing information. XML-based formats for data and metadata are evolving to support many different kinds of knowledge organization and agents' communication on the Internet/Web, driving the need for new techniques capable of extracting and organizing knowledge from various heterogeneous data. However, both the vision of XML and Internet/Web are also evolving in ways that are only imagined in the future. Also humankind pushes exploration onto a much broader playing field (namely “space”)—new challenges to performance, integration, and very large-scale systems adaptation will have to be overcome. ...
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