XML, a way to code documents for easy transfer between applications, is widely seen as a key enabling technology for e-commerce in the future. Today’s HTML-based Web just can’t provide the ...

Notice the flexibility, how easy the XML data type allows programmers to pass in a single or multiple rows of criteria.

Schema also dramatically improves XML by providing built-in data types and user-definable, complex XML data types. Because XML is a text format, XML data is transmitted as text characters.

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 here on Tuesday will discuss intentions to add an XML data type to its SQL Server database, with the Yukon release of the ...

SQL/XML is supported today by Oracle and DB2. It defines XML-oriented operators that work with the native XML data types available in these products.