XMLType – Binary XML Standard data type, makes database XML aware Use as Column, Variable, Argument or Return Value Store post-parse binary representation of XML Optimized …

First, an XML-enabled database does not contain XML, i.e. the XML document is completely external to the database. Any XML document/fragment is constructed from data already in the …

The ability to specify new tags, and to create nested tag structures make XML a great way to exchange data, not just documents. Much of the use of XML has been in data exchange …

This paper presents the storage, indexing and query processing architecture of eXist, an Open Source native XML database system. eXist is tightly integrated with existing tools and covers …

To improve XML insert performance and to reduce the number of tables in your database, you may want to store XML documents in a hybrid man-ner. This approach extracts the values of …

By describing the broad challenges presented by data access and (especially) data interoperability, we highlight both the potential contributions of XML technologies to databases …

While there has been a great deal of activity recently proposing new semi-structured data models and query languages for this purpose, this paper explores the more conservative approach of …