Preface
In recent years XML has continued to emerge as the de-facto standard for data exchange, because it is flexible, extensible, self-describing, and suitable for any combination of structured and unstructured data. With the increasing use of XML as a pervasive data format, there is a growing need to store, index, query, update, and validate XML documents in database systems. In response to this demand, IBM has developed sophisticated XML data management capabilities that are deeply integrated in the DB2 database system. This novel technology is called DB2 pureXML and is available in DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. With pureXML, DB2 has evolved into a hybrid database system that allows you to manage both XML and relational ...
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