Read the white paper on XML DB. It has all the answers to your questions.
It'as available at
http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xmldb/pdf/XMLDB_Technical_Whitepaper.pdf.
"Gerald B. Rosenberg" <No_at_address.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a35e2608cf95f8398971c_at_news.concentric.net...
> Trying to get a handle on Oracle/XML. Am I correct in understanding
> that Oracle Database 9.2.0.1 is the current XML DB for Win2k and Linux
> Pentium and that Oracle XDK 10g is an independent addon that can be used
> with 9.2.0.1?
>
> I have worked with the Oracle TopLink workbench, but could not find any
> equivalent Java-based XML persistence framework. Did I miss something?
>
> Seems like the XML documents stored to the database are basically stored
> in an unstructured repository (at least in comparison to "ordinary"
> relational tables) and a set of virtual tables are created and connected
> through the applicable XML schema to the documents and thereby provide
> concurrent XPath/stream-oriented and XQuery/SQL-oriented access. The XML
> document "shredding" on storage is just a logical operation used to
> associate the document elements with the virtual tables/columns. Is
> this an adequately accurate initial working model for what is going on?
> Is there a better functional description?
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
Received on Tue Dec 02 2003 - 19:53:58 CST
