What is Oracle XML DB?

What is Oracle XML DB?

XML schemas are used by many industries to define the XML structures used for information exchange. XML documents conforming to these XML schemas are highly structured. This tutorial will show you how the rich capabilities of Oracle XML DB enable storage, indexing, query, optimized performance, and management of structured XML data.

What is enterenterprise Oracle XML DB?

Enterprise-level Oracle Database features for XML content: reliability, availability, scalability, and security. Oracle XML DB can be used in conjunction with Oracle XML Developer’s Kit (XDK) to build applications that run in the middle tier in either Oracle Application Server or Oracle Database.

What is path_view and resource_view in Oracle XML DB views?

Oracle XML DB views RESOURCE_VIEW and PATH_VIEW provide SQL access to data in Oracle XML DB Repository through protocols such as FTP and WebDAV. View PATH_VIEW has one row for each unique path in the repository; view RESOURCE_VIEW has one row for each resource in the repository.

What’s new in Oracle Database 11g?

This option, new in Oracle Database 11 g, stores data in a postparse binary format designed specifically for XML data. This option has several advantages over unstructured storage, in that it is XML-schema-aware, allowing better disk space efficiency and query performance.

Oracle XML DB lets you use the database to enforce business rules on XML content, in addition to enforcing rules that can be specified using XML Schema constructs. The database enforces these business rules regardless of whether XML is inserted directly into a table or uploaded using one of the protocols supported by Oracle XML DB Repository.

What does the DBMS_XMLDOM package do?

The DBMS_XMLDOM package is used to access XMLType objects, and implements the Document Object Model (DOM), an application programming interface for HTML and XML documents. This chapter contains the following topics:

How does it provide native XML support?

It provides native XML support by encompassing both the SQL and XML data models in an interoperable way. Oracle XML DB is included as part of Oracle Database starting with Oracle9 i Release 2 (9.2).

What is Dom in HTML and XML?

With DOM, anything found in an HTML or XML document can be accessed, changed, deleted, or added using the Document Object Model, with a few exceptions. In particular, the DOM interfaces for the XML internal and external subsets have not yet been specified.