<div>Interesting point Michael</div>
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<div>One option we are considering is to upgrade our Oracle 10g to 11g and use Oracle XML DB. Does anyone on the list have experience with Oracle XML DB?</div>
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<div>/Johan<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2007 7:01 PM, Michael Kay <<a href="mailto:mike@saxonica.com">mike@saxonica.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> your shopping list appears to perfectly fit the capabilities<br>> of DB2 V9 and its built-in pureXML XQuery processor. This<br>> particularly relates to your requirement to host extensive<br>
> collections of moderately sixed XML documents. DB2 V9 is<br>> definitely worth a look, I'd say.<br><br></div>Certainly worth a look, but in my view using a database that does relational<br>data as well as XML has a big downside in terms of complexity. There's a lot
<br>of functionality there that you don't need, and you can't ignore it - it<br>keeps popping up in all sorts of places, and it colours the whole flavour of<br>the product. Also, if you're in the position where you need to convince and
<br>re-educate your developers to do everything the "pure XML" way, it's a good<br>idea to use technology that doesn't give them any choice.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Michael Kay<br><a href="http://www.saxonica.com/" target="_blank">
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