The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to ...

I blogged previously on the ease of use of GroovySql, which is Groovy‘s easy-to-use JDBC-based data access approach. In another blog post, I covered the utility of OracleXMLQuery, a class which easily ...

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.

hi, i'm looking into whether xml and all its related technologies can be an alternative to relational databases, especially on the query side. i have only the slightest idea of xml, xpath, xslt, ...