The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.) ...

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

The W3C recommends XML for structuring data, and the task of making XML behave more like a relational database falls to the organization's XML Query working group.

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 ...

The W3C recommends XML for structuring data, and the task of making XML behave more like a relational database falls to the organization's XML Query working group.

A new survey of developers using XML has found that a vast majority are using or plan to use XML Query even before it becomes a standard because of the languages ability to simplify data extraction.

XQuery, according to Oracle, is important for querying arbitrary XML data sources and is expected to join SQL as a widely used query language.

They would allow collections of XML files on the Web to be queried like databases.