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Abstract : |
There is no gainsaying that XML is becoming the de facto standard for exchanging data over,the internet and among various applications. Numerous options have been proposed to efficiently store and query XML data. The rich features already present in relational database makes it a better choice. Even when using an RDBMS, there are many different ways to store XML data. In this paper, we briefly introduce the different techniques for mapping XML documents to relations. An analytical evaluation of each of the techniques, revealing their strengths and weaknesses are discussed. We also present our approach for storing XML documents that enhances one of the presented techniques - the schema-less approach that shreds XML documents not accompanied by Document Type Definitions (DTDs)., |
