This was actually the culmination of a project begun in 1997 by then-CTO Larry Alston to make Object Store, the company’s database, into a repository for XML documents. Alston has since left the ...

No, but document-centric ... Players in the XML data space are quite varied, not yet exhibiting the basic homogeneity of SQL RDBMSs. Sometimes the best way of describing them is as 'non-relational.' ...

In the rest of this tip, I describe three different approaches for encoding binary data before embedding it into an XML document. The direct approach to solving this encoding problem converts each ...