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 ...

“These specifications have brought a new level of maturity to the XML world,” said Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead. “We’re seeing people with literally millions of lines of XSLT transformations in ...

I've yet to find a good tutorial online about how to actually do somehtign like this. I mean i found good ones on how XPath operates,a nd what XQuery can do, but nothign that really links it all ...

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 ...

The design and implementation trade-offs within a native XML database make a significant impact on the performance, scalability and features available to applications that use it. This article focuses ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

Handling XML data is not easy because even though it’s highly readable (assuming quasi-English counts) it’s also voluminous. So, if you’re going to explore an XML dataset you absolutely need tools ...

Quentin Clark is director of program management for WinFS (Windows File System). We asked him to comment on a range of WinFS issues and especially on the relationship between WinFS and XML. IW: WinFS ...