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The Impact of XML on Databases and Data Sharing
March 2000
Len Seligman, The MITRE Corporation|
Arnon Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
has received a great deal of attention as the likely successor to HTML
for expressing much of the content of the Web. However, XML also has
the potential to benefit databases and data sharing by providing a common
format in which to express data structure and content. By describing
the broad challenges presented by data access and (especially) data
interoperability, we highlight both the potential contributions of XML
technologies to databases and data sharing, and the problems that remain
to be solved. In some areas, XML promises to provide significant and
revolutionary improvements, such as by increasing the availability of
database outputs across diverse types of systems, and by extending data
management to include semi-structured data. While some of the benefits
of XML are already becoming apparent, others will require years of development
of new database technologies and associated standards.
Additional Search Keywords
XML, Internet data management, Web databases, semi-structured data,
interoperability, database management systems, middleware
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