Tech Brief Understanding XML Query Standards The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. By Nancy ...

In-Depth 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 ...

• XML Query Use Cases spells out day-to-day problems that XQuery drafts could be expected to solve, while XML Query (XQuery) Requirements specifies the working group's goals for the technology.

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.

Because it needed to store, access and query all those data types, the publisher chose an XML database product.

W3C will be looking for other vendors to submit test suites as well, according to W3C. The test suite from IBM and Microsoft is to be submitted to the W3C XML Query Working Group.

Finally, you must create a third document—the XML View—that acts as the glue between the XML schema and the database schema (see Listing 5). The XQueryProcessor uses the XML View to query relational ...

They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that mission-critical business data that is finding expression in XML format.

In such cases, Storbrand stores XML as a CLOB. The problem there is you can neither access nor query the XML content.

Solving that problem is the task of the W3C’s XML Query working group, with the assistance of the XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) working group.