[xquery-talk] Re: The State of Native XML databases

[Elliotte Harold]

Ilya Sterin wrote:

> I don't necessarily debate the schema itself, but there must be a DDL
> to represent the schema, right? 

There doesn't have to be a schema at all, nor do the documents you put 
into a database necessarily have to conmform to a schema if there is 
one. (One big difference between SQL and XML).

Do any of the XML databases out there actually require that users 
provide a schema and then automatically reject all documents that do not 
conform to that schema?

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