XML Benchmarking – the State of the Art and Possible Enhancements

Since XML technologies have become a standard for data representation, numerous methods for processing XML data emerge every day. Consequently, it is necessary to compare the newly proposed methods with the existing ones, as well as analyze the effect of a particular method when applied to various types of data. In this chapter, we provide an overview of existing approaches to XML benchmarking from the perspective of various applications and we show that to date the problem has been highly marginalized. Therefore, in the second part of the chapter we discuss persisting open issues and their possible solutions