Oracle XMLDB terminology

Every new technology comes with its own acronyms and subtleties. Below is a glossary of common terminalogy you will encounter working with Oracle XMLDB.

ACE (Access Control Entry)
An entry in an Access Control List.
ACL (Access control list)
A method for limiting the use of a specific resource to authorised users.
SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language)
Language for describing the structure of a document. HTML is derived from SGML.
SQL / XML
Provides a number of standards-based functions that enable you to query relational data and return XML documents
WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
A set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web servers.
XML (extensible Mark-up Language)
A flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere
XMLType
An Oracle type that stores XML data using an underlying CLOB column, or object-relational columns within a table or view.
XML DB
The features and functions built in to Oracle that enables it to work with XML document.
XML DB Repository
A queryable, hierarchical organised repository, which is ideal for managing documents in various formats including XML. With this repository you can: Store XML content in XML DB as a directory hierarchy of folders, and also use hierarchical metaphors, such as XPath and URLs, to access XML documents and represent relationships between documents.
XML Registry
A place to store XSD documents that allow developers, whether internal and external, to understand the make-up of an organisations data structures using industry standard techniques.
XSD (XML Schema Definition)
A document that describes, in a formal way, the syntax elements and parameters of a web language. Designed by W3C to replace DTD.
XPath
XPath is a language that describes how to locate specific elements (and attributes, processing instructions, etc.) in a document. It allows you to locate specific content within an XML document. XPATH treats an XML document as a logical ordered tree,
XSLT
An acronym for Extensible Style Language Transformation, the language used in XSL style sheets to transform XML documents into other XML documents.