Managing Multiversion Documents and Historical Databases: a Unified Solution Based on XML Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, and Hyun J. Moon   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Demonstrations Abstract XML can provide a very effective environment for the preservation of digital information whereby historical information can be easily preserved and searched through powerful historical queries. We propose a unified approach to represent multiversion XML documents and transaction-time databases in XML, and show that temporal queries can then be expressed in standard XQuery. In our demo we demonstrate the benefits of this approach on several examples, including the UCLA course catalog, W3C XLink standards, the CIA WorldFact Book, and a database of company employees. We will also demonstrate the ICAP and ArchIS system that have explored two alternative implementation architectures, one based on native XML DBMS, and the other on mapping the historical XML views back into a relational DBMS. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery