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XML Extender Administration and Programming


Accessing an XML collection

You can update, delete, search, and retrieve XML collections. Remember, however, that the purpose of using an XML collection is to store or retrieve untagged, pure data in database tables. The data in existing database tables has nothing to do with any incoming XML documents; update, delete, and search operations literally consist of normal SQL access to these tables. If the data is decomposed from incoming XML documents, no original XML documents continue to exist.

The XML Extender provides the ability to perform operations on the data from an XML collection view. Using UPDATE and DELETE SQL statements, you can modify the data that is used for composing XML documents, and therefore, update the XML collection.

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