In the TIMBER project we are exploring the issues involved in storing XML in native format. We recognize XML documents to be trees, and build a system to manipulate collections of trees. In doing so, we attempt to avoid the pitfall of "instance-at-a-time" navigational access. Rather, we attempt to bring to bear the core ideas of database technology, such as declarative querying, a bulk algebra, and cost-based query optimization.
In the TIMBER project we are exploring the issues involved in storing XML in native format. We recognize XML documents to be tre