理解Data Centric VS. Document Centric VS. mixed-content XML

• Overview

  Generally speaking, Document-Centric and Data-Centric are two broad applications areas of XML technologies.

• Document Centric XML

  Document Centric(document-oriented) uses XML to impose structure on information that rarely fits into a relational database – particularly information intended for publishing.

• Data Centric

  Data Centric(data-oriented) is one class of XML, uses XML as an interchange format. One computer sends a message to another, often as part of a transaction, and this message typically carries information that began or ends up in a database.

  XML’s ability to represent more complex structures destined for multiple tables of one or more databases.

  If the information was destined for a single row of a relational database table, XML might be unnessary, because a simple delimited list would do the job.

• References

1. Document- Versus Data-Centric XML
2. Text-centric vs. data-centric XML retrieval
3. Documents vs. Data, Schemas vs. Schemas