> It's not about indexing paths you indicate, XML databases are about indexing the whole structure From my first link, MSSQL does both: The primary XML in

> It's not about indexing paths you indicate, XML databases are about indexing the whole structure From my first link, MSSQL does both: The primary XML index indexes all tags, values, and paths within the XML instances in an XML column ... To enhance search performance, you can create secondary XML indexes. A primary XML index must first exist before you can create secondary indexes And it supports some reasonable subset of XQuery [1]. [1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187854.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187854.aspx