By using XQuery and XSL, you could create a customer extranet that presents a unified view of these three repositories without having to move any of the underlying data.

A new survey finds that a majority of developers using XQuery cited simplified XML data access and transformation as the top reason they use it even before it becomes a standard.

Larry Kim, product manager of the XML Products Group at DataDirect Technologies shared the results of a survey the company just commissioned on the long-anticipated XQuery standard. XQuery ...

A second use for XQuery, according to the Mark Logic guru, is as an integration layer. "You use XQuery to access disparate data sources, each of which represents itself as XML," he said.

The use cases were especially valuable because XQuery’s three major facets — finding, emitting, and correlating XML fragments — span such a wide range of apps.

Developers seeking to support a combination of data formats won’t have to look beyond XQuery 2.0, which will optimize the deployment and integration of XML, relational and legacy data.