Beginning XML Databases (Wrox Beginning Guides)

Overview

The purpose of this chapter is to give you, the reader, a brief picture of how and for what XML is used in industry today. In other words: What is being used, what is it being used for, and how is it being used?

There are no Try It Out sections in this chapter as the content of this chapter is primarily concep tual, but also introductory with respect to native XML database standards.

In this chapter you learn about:

• What XML is capable of

• XML and its relationship with complexity, that of physical database size , and schema flexibility

• Some native XML database products

• Specific XML vocabularies

• XML implementations in industry

• When to use a native XML database