Kevin Beyer, Fatma Özcan, Sundar Saiprasad, Bert Van der Linden. DB2/XML: designing for evolution. In SIGMOD '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data. ACM, Baltimore, Maryland, New York, NY, USA, 2005. [doi]
DB2 provides native XML storage, indexing, navigation and query processing through both SQL/XML and XQuery using the XML data type introduced by SQL/XML. In this tutorial we focus on DB2’s XML support for schema evolution, especially DB2’s schema repository and document-level validation.