Abstract :
Semi-structured data is data that presents some regularity (i.e. it is not an image or plain text), but perhaps not as much as some relational data or some ODMG data (the standard for object databases). Such data is becoming increasingly important and, with XML, should become the standard for publishing data on the World Wide Web. With XML, the Web is turning into a worldwide heterogeneous distributed database. In this paper, we briefly discuss typing and languages for semi-structured data and some new issues arising from the context of data management on the Web
Keywords :
data structures; distributed databases; electronic publishing; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; storage management; World Wide Web; XML; data management; data publishing; data regularity; languages; semi-structured data; standard; typing; worldwide heterogeneous distributed database; Computer science; Database languages; Database systems; HTML; Image databases; Publishing; Relational databases; Standards publication; Turning; XML;
