Jonathan Robie explains the role of XQuery, a query language for XML data, and its importance to IT business users.

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.

Just as the community is crafting a great diversity of well-specialized XML processing tools, along comes the XQuery omni-tool, which is complex enough that it is probably not very accessible to the ...

Is XQuery suitable for real-time data integration? That absolutely depends on your implementation, but yes. To solve such a problem today, you might be using a hodgepodge of things, like JDBC, SQL and ...

XQuery promises to do for XML data what SQL did for relational data -- that is, make it possible to write a standardized query that will pull the right data out of any database, regardless of ...

Just as the community is crafting a great diversity of well-specialized XML processing tools, along comes the XQuery omni-tool. ADT's Uche Ogbuji says it's complex enough that it is probably not very ...

Understanding this growing need of database developers, XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group have jointly released the first version of XQuery, a query language that is broadly applicable ...

DataDirect issued an announcement last week that it has updated its DataDirect XQuery solution, which now supports XQuery functionality in the open source MySQL Enterprise Server relational database ...

But should XQuery have to re-implement every standard control idiom? Should it have to re-create all the standard libraries? Languages and environments have always been fellow travelers.

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