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.) ...

As the co-creator of Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin knows a thing or two about pulling data out of relational databases. So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database ...

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

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.