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Et tu, XML? The downfall of the relational empire

Summary: Analyzes XML versus the relational model, highlighting how XQuery design and XML Schema enable a vast, web-scale data ecosystem. Discusses the Semantic Web and related phenomena, arguing that XML's hierarchical semantics pose new data-management challenges for traditional DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8724
Venue
VLDB
Year
2001
Pagerank
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13,839 | 3.73%
DOI
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