The Discusses the relationship between XML and databases. Describes some of the types of software available to process XML documents with databases.Although the information discussed in this paper is mostly uptodate, the idea that the world of XML and databases can be seen through the datacentricdocumentcentric divide is somewhat dated. At the time this paper was originally written 1999, it was a convenient metaphor for introducing native XML databases, which were then not widely understood, even in the database community. However, it was always somewhat unrealistic, as many XML documents are not strictly datacentric or documentcentric, but somewhere in between. So while the datacentricdocumentcentric divide is a convenient starting point, it is better to understand the differences between XMLenabled databases and native XML databases and to choose the appropriate database based on your processing needs. For a more modern look at the difference between XMLenabled and native XML databases,

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