4. Mixed approach (RDBMS – XML)

As seen above, in this type of approach, XML documents are stored in relational tables with special column types (native XML), capable of processing XML. The possibilities offered by this type of solution are therefore highly dependent on the DBMS used.

In Oracle, for example, the native XMLType type can be used to store, query, access, transform and manipulate XML data .

Three types of storage are possible with XMLType :

• unstructured storage in the form of LOB (available from version 8), which consists of storing the raw XML file but does not allow complex processing afterwards;

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