One of the more pressing problems is how to store and manage XML data. “There are really three ways you can do this,” says John Matranga, CTO of Omicron Consulting, in Philadelphia.

You can store documents as native XML, build XML from other forms of data, or even develop hybrid systems with POP data stored as native XML and MOM data extracted from database structure.

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 ...

Use XML as a local data store Starting with the easiest part of your question first, ... Now, for the trickier part of your question, inserting new data into a local XML file.

IBM and Oracle promise deep XML support in upcoming versions of their databases. With Web services on the rise, Eric Knorr says these solutions could help you get a handle all that XML data.

New project...one of the requirements is a system that will take in ANY xml document, and decompose it into a set of tables in a database to make it available for searching.<BR><BR>So the current ...