While XQuery has gained a lot of support and interest over the past two years, Microsoft has apparently bailed on the standard. In January, the Redmond software giant announced that it was dropping ...

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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 ...

eXist is an open source XML database that has matured into an impressive XML content search and storage system. In eXist, unlike in Apache Xindice or Berkeley DB XML, XQuery plays a central role, but ...

XML seems unstoppable. On the Web, this general-purpose document display language is rapidly replacing HTML. In the office, Microsoft Corp. and OpenOffice have both moved to XML document formats. Even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bamford, the principal architect for Oracle Server technologies and sometimes known as the father of Real Application Clusters (RAC), said what the world needs is a free and open XQuery engine. To ...

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 ...