Storing and querying XML in the database

Similar to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) allows you to define your own application-specific markup tags and is thus particularly suited for data interchange.

Adaptive Server allows you to:

Adaptive Server uses the XML Query Language (XQL) to search XML documents. A Java-based XQL query processor is included with Adaptive Server. Because many of the tools commonly used to process XML are written in Java, Adaptive Server provides an excellent base for XML-SQL applications.