STEP UK has released X2X, a set of software tools for managing XLink information in
databases.
X2X is designed to make linking applications much more scalable, by storing the linking information in more readily-processed
database formats instead of inside of XML documents. X2X uses JDBC to connect to relational database systems, and can
accept
and present linking information using the W3C's XLink vocabulary.
While
smaller sets of documents may be able to use XML documents for direct storage of links, large sets can become unwieldy
and slow if XML documents are used as the primary source of XML information. The relational database model makes it easy to
dynamically generate lists of links that are appropriate to a given document, while providing access to the entire set of links when
necessary.
An evaluation download is available, as is an announcement.
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