XQuery was designed to solve this problem by allowing complex queries across not only multiple XML documents, but also between XML documents, relational databases, object repositories, and other ...

XQuery promises to do for XML data what SQL did for relational data — that is, make it possible to write a standardized query that will pull the right data out of any database, ...

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 ...

A trend to watch in 2004 is growing support for XQuery. Current methods of querying XML data are rooted in a tradition of document-oriented XML; XQuery, in contrast, focuses on data-oriented XML.

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 ...

XQuery is a W3C recommendation for an engine that can be used to query XML stores and XML data in RDBMSes. DataDirect XQuery is an enterprise-grade XQuery processor. According to DataDirect's ...

A second use for XQuery, according to the Mark Logic guru, is as an integration layer. "You use XQuery to access disparate data sources, each of which represents itself as XML," he said. "Because most ...

I have a SQL Server 2005 table that has an XML type column. This column stores address information, and data on multiple locations can be in this column's XML.Now, I need to query the address(es ...

That latter effort should soon get a boost, as XQuery, the XML counterpart to. XML seems unstoppable. On the Web, this general-purpose document display language is rapidly replacing HTML.

It's a classic IT dilemma: should you wait for a standard to emerge and risk losing your competitive advantage, or should you get the technology you need now in a pre-standard product that might ...

In June, the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Query Working Group released a set of draft proposals for how a new XML query language, called XQuery, will work at the group's site ...