What Do Those Weird XML Types Want, Anyway?

Steven J. DeRose: What Do Those Weird XML Types Want, Anyway? VLDB 1999: 721-724

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/DeRose99,
  author    = {Steven J. DeRose},
  editor    = {Malcolm P. Atkinson and
               Maria E. Orlowska and
               Patrick Valduriez and
               Stanley B. Zdonik and
               Michael L. Brodie},
  title     = {What Do Those Weird XML Types Want, Anyway?},
  booktitle = {VLDB'99, Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland,
               UK},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {1-55860-615-7},
  pages     = {721-724},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/DeRose99.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/99},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

XML tries to bring to natural language documents ("texts" for short), some of what databases have had for decades: explicit structure whose properties can be known; independence of data and structure from reporting (which we foreigners call "formatting"); various kinds of isolation; and so on. But the data buried in those XML elements is weird stuff: deep hierarchies, arbitrary and unpredictable orderings and repetitions, a painful number of atomic types, and enough aggregates to make one's head hurt.

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