The preceding example shows how you might move the XML processing performed by your PHP/Oracle application from PHP to Oracle, thus taking advantage of the optimizations provided by the Oracle database server. In particular, you saw how to generate an XML document from scratch and apply an XSL transformation inside the database, rather than performing these operations with PHP.
In fact, Oracle XML Database provides much more functionality than what the sample demonstrates.
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Oracle XML DB refers to the set of Oracle Database XML technologies integrated with the relational database server, providing high-performance XML storage, retrieval, and processing.
The most significant features of Oracle XML DB, which make Oracle database ideal for XML-enabled database-driven applications, are listed below:
Ability to store, retrieve, update, and transform XML data through the SQL and PL/SQL interfaces.
Ability to perform XML operations on SQL data without...