Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Tools: Database Integration

As XML will be used for complex software-to-software information interchange, persistent, searchable storage of XML objects is important

Two principle approaches:

Object Oriented Databases

Create a database schema directly from the DTD

Example: Object Design's Excelon
RDBMS

Essentially produce a very shallow schema which handles XML syntax, and pour any XML document into it
But see also Software AG's Tamino, which claims to be a native XML database.