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XML Publishing

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XML Publishing typically refers to the creation of XML output (either in the form of a character stream or file) from a relational DBMS. XML Publishing typically must handle three issues: converting an XML query or view definition into a corresponding SQL query; encoding hierarchy in the SQL data; and generating tags around the encoded hierarchical data. Since in some cases the relational data may have originated from XML, the topics of XML Storage and XML Publishing are closely related and often addressed simultaneously.

Historical Background

The topic of XML Publishing arose very soon after database researchers suggested a connection between XML and semi-structured data [5], a topic that had previously been studied in the database literature [1,2,8]. Initially the assumption was that XML databases would probably need to resemble those for semi-structured data in order to get good performance. Florescu and Kossmann [11] showed that storing XML in a...

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Zachary Ives

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

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  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Ives, Z. (2009). XML Publishing. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_784

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