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 ...

We have an XSD that defines three element types: 'vehicle', 'car' and 'truck'. 'car' and 'truck' each extend 'vehicle'.<BR><BR>A (validated) document may contain many car and truck elements, but they ...

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.

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...

Back in 1998 there was no consensus that anyone would need a full-fledged XML query language. Today, XQuery is being implemented by all the major relational databases, by middleware vendors, in ...

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 ...

Continously growing usage of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) data demands for development of powerful query optimization systems. Optimization approaches for XML databases depend on database type.

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 ...