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