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 language.

Although most pundits agree that XML will become the standard for data storage and retrieval in the next decade, they can’t agree on how it will be implemented. Both theories are based on the ...

NEW YORK — A pair of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) groups have jointly released 10 new working drafts of specifications intended to allow collections of XML (Extensible Markup Language) files on the ...

IBM and Microsoft submitted testing software to the World Wide Web Consortium standards body intended to promote an XML-based method for querying databases, or XQuery. Today database programmers pull ...

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