Building Database-Driven PHP Applications on Oracle XML DB

Overview

Although, when working with Oracle XML DB from the PHP scripting language, one can still process XML data on the client side by using PHP's XML extensions, there are many advantages to processing XML content inside the database. Moving the XML processing to the database tier is particularly useful when a person is dealing with large XML documents stored in the database. This paper explains how to take advantage of XMLType views when a person needs to wrap existing relational or object-relational data in XML formats.