20.1. Introduction

HTML dominates the Internet as a standard to present data and information in the twenty-first century. XML is replacing HTML in many domains as the next-generation standard for data representation and exchange. As e-commerce development grows rapidly, XML documents are also growing in ever increasing numbers. Hence, many XML-related applications and software are available to satisfy market demands. In this chapter, we concentrate on an XML-enabled database and a native XML database by comparing their performance (for legal reasons the products cannot be named). The XML-enabled database is a relational database that transfers data between XML documents and relational tables. It retrieves data for maintaining the relational properties ...

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