What is XQuery? (O'Reilly)

[Posted October 23, 2002 by cook]

Per Bothner writes about XQuery on O'Reilly. "The W3C is finalizing the XQuery specification, aiming for a final release in late 2002. XQuery is a powerful and convenient language designed for processing XML data. That means not only files in XML format, but also other data including databases whose structure -- nested, named trees with attributes -- is similar to XML. XQuery is an interesting language with some unusual ideas. This article provides a high level view of XQuery, introducing the main ideas you should understand before you go deeper or actually try to use it."

What a nuisance

Posted Oct 24, 2002 10:59 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

When people will learn that *Markup Languages* are for documents, and data management must be left for the Relational Model?

Re:What a nuisance

Posted Oct 24, 2002 15:59 UTC (Thu) by judge (guest, #6234) [Link]

I don't know what you talking about. XSLT is something that should burn in hell. To me it looks like XQuery/XPath can accomplish same things without the horror of writing for statements in xml :). For once a W3 standard that looks like a normal language with a bit of xml.

To me this looks like a fairly flexible way of doing queries that applies to more than just relational databases(although sql should probly still be used there). Look forward to using this at some point in my life. Maybe I could integrate this into the aiml capabilities of my <plug>http://j-alice.sf.net</plug> project.