There are
many native xml databases available and eXist is one among them. If
you know that your applications are using xml in some form or the other
in many places then you can go for a native xml database like eXist
to handle your xml files. It will improve your productivity and you
can use the xml database in an efficient manner.
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Features
like support for XQuery, XPath, and XSLT are available in eXist. Using
XPath you can navigate through the nodes or elements in an xml document
and the document collections.
XQuery
is used to query the xml document and get results based on your query.
XQuery can be compared to the normal SQL you use in other database.
XPath is used in the XQuery to perform efficient queries in the xml
document. Using XSLT, you can transform the xml document in to other
forms like PDF, plain text and HTML.
Since eXist
support indexing it is faster to do searching. Support for xml-rpc,
soap, and data update are available in eXist. Concurrent access is also
supported.
