Querying XML documents by dynamic shredding
Hui Zhang, Frank Wm. Tompa · 2004
With the wide adoption of XML as a standard data representation and exchange format querying XML documents becomes increasingly important. However relational database systems constitute a much more mature technology than what is available for native storage of XML. To bridge the gap one way to manage XML data is to use a commercial relational database system. In this approach users typically first ``shred'' their documents by isolating what they predict to be meaningful fragments then store the individual fragments according to some relational schema and later translate each XML query (e.g. expressed in W3C's XQuery) to SQL queries expressed against the shredded documents.