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 ...

In a rare act of cooperation, Oracle and IBM have submitted a joint request for a new specification that will define how Java applications query databases using a proposed language called XQuery. Most ...

IBM and Microsoft submitted testing software to the World Wide Web Consortium standards body intended to promote an XML-based method for querying databases, or XQuery. Today database programmers pull ...