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 ...

In addition, the XML-enabled database may only store part of the XML document. The second is the "native XML database," which indexes XML documents directly and stores the entire XML document and ...

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 ...