XML and Database Technology Survey

XML overview

Covers "X"-concepts

XML
XML Schema
XLink, XPointer, XPath
XSL, XSLT
XQuery
DOM, SAX, JDOM
XHTML

General research directions for the database community

Written in 1999, a little out-of-date, but issues discussed are still relevant.

Professor J. Widom
Professor A. Levy (emphasis on data integration)

Killer application: the Web

"XML turns the Web into a database". Semantic web.

Tools
- XML
- RDF
- Dublin Core
Articles
- Tim Berners-Lee, The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001
- Edd Dumbill, The Semantic Web: A Primer
- JOHO

"Trends"

XML as a format for data exchange is widely accepted, XML as a data storage format is questionable, although there are native XML databases. The alternative is a relational DB that provides an XML view (a.k.a. XML publishing). Example systems include:

Xperanto
SilkRoute

The major issues are:

XML query
Mapping between XML view and relational DB

Last updated Fri, 7 Feb 2003 about 5 PM PST