When planning an application that uses XML documents, you first need to make the following design decisions:
After you make these decisions, you can then plan the rest of you administration tasks:
How you use the XML Extender depends on what your application requires. As indicated in Introduction to the XML Extender, you can compose XML documents from existing DB2 data and store XML documents in DB2, either as intact documents or as DB2 data. Each of these storage and access methods have different planning requirements. The following sections discuss each of these planning considerations.