After more than two decades of its use, XML is not only a standard format for exchanging data between different (Web) applications but also a model for a family of some emerging or NoSQL databases, called XML databases. In addition to its efficiency in the management of conventional data (i.e., data without a temporal reference), XML is also an excellent support for storing, manipulating, and querying temporal data, due its hierarchical structure. Besides, although several survey papers have dealt with multiple aspects concerning XML data, like XML data modeling, storage, indexing, and querying, there is no survey on the XML data manipulation (i.e., XML data insertion, deletion and modification) topic that continues interesting researchers of the database community, both in conventional and temporal XML databases. For that reason, we think that it is interesting to have a paper that reviews and compares research contributions dealing with this topic. So, our present paper (i) provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of XML data manipulation, in conventional and temporal XML databases, (ii) studies the support of such functionality in mainstream commercial DBMSs and (iii) gives some remarks on possible future research directions related to this issue.

经过二十多年的使用，XML不仅是在不同（Web）应用程序之间交换数据的标准格式，而且还是一系列新兴数据库或NoSQL数据库（称为XML数据库）的模型。除了其在常规数据（即没有时间参考的数据）的管理中的效率外，由于其分层结构，XML还是对存储，操作和查询时间数据的出色支持。此外，尽管有几份调查报告涉及XML数据的多个方面，例如XML数据建模，存储，索引和查询，但是没有关于XML数据操作（即XML数据插入，删除和修改）主题的调查继续进行。常规和时态XML数据库中数据库社区的有趣研究者。是因为，我们认为，有一篇论文可以审查和比较与该主题相关的研究贡献是很有趣的。因此，我们的本文（i）概述了常规和时态XML数据库中XML数据处理的最新技术，（ii）研究了主流商业DBMS中此类功能的支持，并且（iii）给出了有关此问题的未来可能的研究方向的一些评论。