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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:10:12 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-A [DataBase] built using [XML]. Small [XMLDataBase]s might be contained within a single file or as big as the portion
of the [WorldWideWeb] that's coded in [XHTML].
+A [DataBase] built using [XML]. Small [XMLDataBase]s might be contained within a single file and large ones may span all
of the [WorldWideWeb] that's coded in [XHTML].
-[XSLT] is to an
[XMLDataBase] what
[SQL] is to
a [RelationalDataBase]. In theory [XML] [Schema
]s can be used to impose and reason about the structure of [XMLDataBase]s, but experiance tells use that most users are unwilling to check for well-formedness, let alone [validity|Valid]
.
+[XSLT] is a query language for
[XMLDataBase]s in much the same way that
[SQL] is a query language for
[RelationalDataBase]s.
-In many ways the move to unstructured and semi-structured [XML] databases is based on a reaction to high level of rigidity in [PostRelationalDataBase]s and a return some of the aspects of [HierarchicalDataBase]s, with the [XML] tree structured document in the place of the hierarchy.
+In many ways the move to unstructured and semi-structured [XML] databases is based on a reaction to high level of rigidity in [PostRelationalDataBase]s and a return some of the aspects of [HierarchicalDataBase]s, with the [XML] tree structured document in the place of the hierarchy. In theory [XML] [Schema]s can be used to reason about the structure of [XMLDataBase]s, but experiance tells use that most users are unwilling to check for well-formedness, let alone [validity|Valid]
.
