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

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.) ...

The W3C recommends XML for structuring data, and the task of making XML behave more like a relational database falls to the organization's XML Query working group.

Native XQuery support does indeed mean that developers can query XML, relational, object-relational and repository data using this industry-standard XML querying language.

The W3C recommends XML for structuring data, and the task of making XML behave more like a relational database falls to the organization's XML Query working group.

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 ...

They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that mission-critical business data that is finding expression in XML format.

The foundation of all XML-oriented query strategies is XPath, a syntax built to descend treelike structures and to lop off branches. When an XSLT stylesheet transforms an XML document, it uses ...

A new survey of developers using XML has found that a vast majority are using or plan to use XML Query even before it becomes a standard because of the languages ability to simplify data extraction.

Although I used the word “practical” in the title of this article, a little background might be useful in choosing the best tools and techniques for managing your XML databases in Linux.