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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

XQuery is a query language designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. Among bigger software players outside of the database realm, none has been faster off the block to ...

If you set out to explore XQuery, the XML query language, you’ll soon encounter a collection of examples, or use-cases, that show how XQuery can query and transform XML data. These scenarios are ...

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 ...