What Is Oracle Corporations Direction Regarding XML?
Oracle Corporation’s XML strategy is to use XML in ways that exploit all of the benefits of the current Oracle technology stack. Today you can combine Oracle XML components with the Oracle8i (or higher) database and Advanced Queueing (AQ) to achieve conflict resolution, transaction verification, and so on. Oracle is working to make future releases more seamless for these functions, as well as for functions such as distributed two phase commit transactions. XML data is stored either object-relational tables or views, or as CLOBs. XML transactions are transactions with one of these datatypes and are handled using the standard Oracle mechanisms, including rollback segments, locking, and logging. From Oracle9i, Oracle supports sending XML payloads using AQ. This involves making XML queriable from SQL. Oracle is active in all XML standards initiatives, including W3C XML Working Groups, Java Extensions for XML, Open Applications Group, and XML.org for developing and registering specific XML