XML Document handling in databases
For the law enforcement and justice community, the creation and transmission of the XML version of a docment has to be embedded in a larger vision of how information will be extracted, stored, and retrieved, and a whole host of supplemental issues such as persistence of the document including the ability to faithfully recreate it as a matter of public record. There is considerable work going on in the re-development of the major databases to accomodate the need to more completely perform these functions.
There is also confusion and uncertainty about how we will do this in the future, and how the various major database providers will implement this capability. In a series of articles in InfoWorld, Jon Udell reports on a discussion and reaction to these trends in an article about Sean McCown, Michael Rys, and conversational journalism. Jon notes that in April, InfoWorld ran an ambitious story by Sean McCown. Entitled Databases Flex their XML, comparing the XML features of DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase -- and also made an excursion into Yukon territory. (Jon wrote a speculative sidebar on the future of native XML database technology.) Recently, Microsoft's Michael Rys, a database architect and a co-author of XQuery from the Experts, blogged a lengthy and thoughtful response to Sean's analysis. ... [Jon's Radio]
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