Building XML-based Website Using eXist Native XML Database Platform

Abstract

As volumes of XML data grow, we need to store them in effective way. One solution to it is in native XML database. This paper presents an exploration and implementation of XML document retrieval using native XML database tool:eXist. Before we exploit some functionality it has, we build a simple wrapper tool to extract information from HTML to XML. After we have XML document, we begin our experiment to build simple site. The site is developed under eXist platform to make use all of eXist ability and also to implement some of XML-related technology functionality. The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate eXist as native XML database platform and recommend XML as database format