It's used for queries that must represent results as XML, to query XML stored inside or outside the database, or to span relational and XML sources. SQL/XML is another standard that uses declarative, ...

Understanding XML Query Standards. By Nancy Vodicka; April 18, 2007; On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL ...

Members of the W3C's XML Query working group include Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and DataDirect. The ten drafts address various related W3C projects, including XML Query (XQuery), which establishes how ...

IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the ...

New 9i SQL functions will also include new operators designed specifically for querying XML. XML at IBM is part of the WebSphere e-commerce infrastructure. And so is the database DB2.

The W3C recommends XML for structuring data, and the task of making XML behave more like a relational database falls to the organization's XML Query working group.

Query Strategies. The foundation of all XML-oriented query strategies is XPath, a syntax built to descend treelike structures and to lop off branches.

Innovations 2006 Analysis: Used to be, friends didn't let friends use stored procedures and triggers. Wisdom was, databases were just those boring, clunky old things used to crunch numbers and ...

As XML has matured, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has added new technologies—such as XML Schema, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), and XPath—to support and enhance its ...

Hi all,I'm thinking in a small hobby project (wiki-cms), for which I'd be interested in storing XML documents in a database and querying them. I'll do this in Java (JSP, servlet frontend), so I'm ...