SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE STORAGE, INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL OF XML DOCUMENTS USING RELATIONAL DATABASES

摘要

A system (34) and method for assigning attributes to XML documents to facilitate their storage and retrieval in relational databases (54). A converter (50) accepts XML documents, processes them and outputs relational data about the XML documents which is stored in the relational database (54). A searcher (52) using SQL query engines performs queries to retrieve the documents and sends the results of the query in XML form to the users.