Adaptability of Methods for Processing XML Data using Relational Databases - the State of the Art and Open Problems

Abstract

In this paper we study techniques which enable to improve XML processing based on relational databases, so-called adaptive or flexible mapping methods. We discuss reasons why these techniques are important and promising, we provide an overview of existing approaches, we classify their main features, and we sum up the most important findings and characteristics.

Finally, we discuss possible improvements and corresponding key problems.

Keywords

• Adaptability
• Methods
• Processing
• using
• Relational
• Databases
• State
• Problems