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

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

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.

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