Don't some databases provide features specifically for handling XML?
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Most major relational databases (like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM's DB2) support XML natively. The problem is that none of them support XML in the same way. If you use a database that provides XML support, you should look at the vendor documentation and decide whether you want to use it. The specific XML support in each of those databases is unfortunately beyond the scope of this lesson.
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What about object-oriented databases? Aren't they better suited to use with XML?
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Object-oriented databases are more appropriate for storing XML data than relational databases, generally speaking. They're designed explicitly to handle the treelike data structures associated with object-oriented design. Treelike is also the best way to describe most XML data structures. However, object-oriented databases have not displaced relational databases on the market and are not standardized in the same manner as relational databases.
