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 ...

This class makes it very easy, almost trivial, to convert SQL query results into XML, but a major disadvantage of OracleXMLQuery is that it is a proprietary solution.

The alternative of searching XML documents via the SQL database query language is not suitable, O’Grady said.

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 ...