[xquery-talk] Re: The State of Native XML databases

[Ronald Bourret]

This is certainly not true with DB2.

I took a quick look at the documentation for SQL Server, Oracle, and 
Sybase. It does not appear that SQL Server or Oracle requires an XML 
Schema. I couldn't figure out whether Sybase requires one.

Note that Oracle is an odd bird here, as you can store XML either as a 
BLOB or using an object-relational mapping. The latter implies an XML 
Schema or DTD, but I don't know if it actually requires one.

-- Ron

John Snelson wrote:
> It's my understanding that XML support in a number of the big relational 
> databases requires an XML Schema, and cannot store documents that do not 
> conform to the schema.