XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems
by Akmal B. Chaudhri, Awais Rashid, Roberto Zicari
19.1. Introduction
The number of XML documents will grow rapidly in the future due to the increasing importance of XML as a data exchange format and as a language describing structured text. Serious thought is required on how to store XML documents while preserving their structure and allowing efficient access to parts of the structured documents. The latter calls for database techniques that primarily view XML documents as semi-structured data.
There are many standard database systems—relational, object-oriented, object-relational, as well as directory servers—and more recently the so-called native XML database systems. We would like to determine the suitability of these alternatives for storing XML documents. In this chapter we show the results ...
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