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 ...

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.

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 ...

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...

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 ...

DataDirect Technologies has released version 3.0 of its XQuery product, an XQuery processor that streamlines and makes more efficient use of multiple data types, including XML, SOAP and EDI messages, ...

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...