SQL/XML
15.1 Introduction
For the last several decades, most of the world’s critical data has been stored in SQL databases, managed and queried using the SQL language. More recently, people have turned to XML to represent their data in a more natural way, and they need a new language to manage and query that data – a language that takes account of the structure of an XML document as well as its data values. You read in previous chapters how first XPath and then XQuery were defined to do just that. But many experts have asked the question, “why not just use SQL?” – perhaps converting all your data into XML and all your applications into XQuery amounts to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Relational databases and the SQL language ...
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