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Posted Feb 5, 2008

XPath Holding Back the SQL/XML Database Industry

By DatabaseJournal.com Staff

[From SQL Summit]

Michael M David discusses flaws in XML support for modern databases. He explores limits imposed by single-leg, linear hierarchical processing, an approach used with XPath navigation of document content. He discusses global views, multi-leg queries and using hierarchical semantics to increase data value. Examples are illustrated using a navigationless hierarchical XML processor.

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