On Developing Methods for XML Databases

摘要

Although procedures and methods have been long established in Relational and Object-Relational DBMS, they have yet to make an appearance in XML Database. Currently no form of methods exists on XML DBMS, along with any syntactical approach to the problem. The direct translation of methods from relational tables to hierarchical data form is not possible. This paper addresses the issues of building XML Methods, their capability and limitations. For implementation, we use an open-source Native XML DBMS. A preliminary analysis is also provided to show the methods performance.