5.5. Conclusion

IBM offers a variety of current XML data products and approaches as well as an encompassing vision of the future for XML data management. Users familiar with SQL and standard relational database application development who need to quickly generate XML fragments can make use of engine-level support that resembles their current tool set and leverages current knowledge. Developers who require the creation of complete XML documents from existing relational data, or who wish to directly load entire XML documents or shred them into relational tables, will find the function they require along with support for common APIs, validation calls, and transformation support. Functional support for XML operations in a database is just one part ...

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