XML has emerged in only five years as a startlingly powerful means of handling data. It has also been accompanied by a slew of "X-centric" helper tools, APIs and standards such as XSLT, XPath and, of ...
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 ...
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.