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3. Representative Products

While the general world of document management is moving toward adoption of structured information and use of XML and SGML, three providers stand out today:
The preceding offerings distinguish themselves by using underlying database management products with native support for object-oriented data. Object-oriented data, as mentioned in an earlier article of this series, matches the structure of XML data quite well, and database systems that comprehend object-oriented data adapt well to the tasks of managing XML information.
By contrast, other information management products that comprehend XML or SGML data use relational database systems and provide their own object-oriented extensions to those database systems in order to comprehend object-oriented data such as XML or SGML data, and relying on such implementations have also garnered success and respect in the document management marketplace. These providers' current offerings fall into this second category:

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