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…Principal Features…
XML support
- Features collectively called “XML DB”
- XMLType datatype
- Store and query XML document in column
- New SQL operators, PL/SQL packages
- XML Developers Kit
- Parsers, XSLT Processor, more…
Large object support
Notes:
XML support is also provided in a set of features collectively called “XML DB”. XML can be stored natively in a table column defined with the datatype XMLType. SQL extensions and new PL/SQL packages have been added. An XML SQL Utility is provided for generating XML output from SQL or JDBC calls; an XML developers kit for Java, C++ and other languages is available. The XDK contains parsers, XSLT processors and much more.
Since Internet applications often involve multimedia datatypes, Oracle created new, more efficient built-in datatype support for character-based large objects (CLOBs) and binary large objects (BLOBS).