On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. XQuery allows you to work in one common ...

A pair of World Wide Web Consortium groups have jointly released 10 new working drafts of specifications intended to allow collections of XML files on the Web to be queried like databases. The drafts ...

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 language.

Although most pundits agree that XML will become the standard for data storage and retrieval in the next decade, they can’t agree on how it will be implemented. Both theories are based on the ...

Ten years is a long time in IT. But in the world of database systems, a ten year old technology is barely out of kindergarten. Relational databases took a decade to move from the labs to ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Berkeley DB XML is a database library built on the venerable Berkeley DB engine. Sleepycat engineers erected a layer atop Berkeley DB, extending that engine and creating a new one that provides XML ...

hi, i'm looking into whether xml and all its related technologies can be an alternative to relational databases, especially on the query side. i have only the slightest idea of xml, xpath, xslt, ...

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to ...