Report on the EDBT'04 workshop on database technologies for handling XML information on the Web

Abstract

The use of database technologies for handling XML information on the web is discussed in the DataX'04 workshop. XML plays an important role in web service revolution and standardization of protocols. The evolution of XML schemas and indexing of XML documents are used for managing and accessing multimedia resources. The XML query engines provide the user with very fast and approximate results to the data exploration queries.