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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Open and novel issues in XML database applications: future directions and advanced technologies / Eric Pardede, editor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: "This book not only provides the current issues of XML database research, but also provides a comprehensive list of challenges for further research in XML database and visionary ideas for future XML database research"–Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-60566-308-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-60566-309-8 (ebook) 1.

XML (Document markup language) 2. Database management. 3. Application

software–Development. I. Pardede, Eric, 1975-

QA76.76.H94O68 2009

005.74–dc22

2008047743

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