XRecursive: Connecting XML with Relational Databases

Introduction

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is used for representing data through the internet, but this technology needs a suitable medium for storing these data. At present, three common technologies can be used to store and retrieve XML documents, i.e., native XML database, Object Oriented Database (OODB) and Relational Database (RDB). With the trend of increasing amount of XML documents on the World Wide Web, it is critical to have efficient mechanism to store and query XML documents to exploit the full power of this technology. Now day’ XML emerged as a major standard for representing data on the World Wide Web while the dominant storage mechanism for structured data is the relational databases, which has been an efficient tool for storing, searching, retrieving data from different collection of data. The ability to map XML data in relational databases is difficult mission and challenging in the world of all IT organization so there is a need to develop an interfaces and tools for mapping and storing XML data in relational databases.