Implementation of a declarative query and data manipulation language for X-Ray

Nowadays, database management systems (DBMS) play a central role in the realization of modern information systems for efficient storage, management and retrieval of large amount of data. At the same time, the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is emerging fast as de facto standard for electronic data exchange. In order to be able to benefit from both technologies, a number of approaches have already been developed, aiming at the integration of XML and DBMS. They allow processing XML data on the basis of declarative query languages, don’t pay however much attention to the manipulation of XML data. ...