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IntroducingOracle XML DB

XML (W3C XML Standard 1.0) stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML defines a standard to encode documents with data (content) and metadata. Over the past 10 years, XML has been widely used for electronic publishing, data transmission, and application

Oracle XML Database (XML DB) refers to the database technology in the Oracle database designed to store, manage, and retrieve XML. In the enterprise database applications, Oracle XML DB plays a key role in offering large-scale XML data storage, simplified XML data management, and high-performance XML retrieval and processing.

This chapter introduces XML and ...

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