XML Services provides the following capabilities:
Generating XML: A for xml clause in select commands, which returns the result set as an XML document in the standard SQLX format.
Storing XML:
Support for XML documents stored as either character data in char, varchar, text, unichar, univarchar, or unitext columns, or as parsed XML.
xmlparse, which parses and indexes and XML document and generates a parsed and indexed representation for storage.
xmlvalidate, which validates the XML document against DTD or XML schema definitions.
Querying and shredding XML: xmltest and xmlextract, which query and extract data from XML documents.
I18N support: Support for Unicode and non-ASCII server character sets in XML documents, including support for generating, storing, querying and extracting XML documents containing non-ASCII data.
