The XQuery Chimera Takes Center Stage (O'Reilly)

[Posted January 10, 2007 by cook]

Simon St. Laurent discusses the state of XQuery on O'Reilly's XML.com. "XQuery has pretty much always been about more than XML. For years, vendors have shown diagrams where XQuery provided a central cloud connecting all kinds of relational databases and XML databases -- and whatever else might be lying around -- into a single lovely XML stream. Connections with relational databases have been a key justification for XQuery's support of the W3C XML Schema type system and its heavily typed processing model. XQuery isn't meant to replace SQL, but it can certainly complement it, especially when relational databases are already supporting reporting results as XML."