XMLデータベース（以降、XMLDB）では、このSQLに該当するものとして XQuery（XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language） がW3Cで標準化されており、2007年1月23日にXPath 2.0など関連する8つの仕様群を含め、勧告（Recommendation）となりました（W3Cのプレスリリース）。

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

Microsoftは現地時間2023年2月16日、macOS用Microsoft Excel(以下、Excel)でPower Queryエディター経由のデータインポート機能をサポートすると発表した。

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.) ...

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

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.

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