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- XQuery
- XML QUERY Language A language for querying XML documents from the W3C. Compatible with related W3C standards (W3C XML Schema, XSLT, etc.), XQuery was derived from the XPath...
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- Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition 2010 (Windows)
- Altova XMLSpy 2010 Enterprise Edition is the industry's best-selling XML editor and XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies. In addition to the world's leading XML editor, XMLSpy includes a powerful graphical XML Schema editor that allows you to design complex schemas with ease. Advanced error...
- Tags: Altova, WSDL, XQuery, Microsoft Windows, XBRL, XPath, Altova XMLSpy, Altova XMLSpy 2010 Enterprise Edition, WSDL Designer, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Using XQuery to Build Updatable XML Views Over Relational Databases
- XML has become an important medium for data exchange, and is frequently used as an interface to - i.e. a view of - a relational database. Although much attention has been paid to the problem of querying relational databases through XML views, the problem of updating relational databases through XML...
- Tags: XQuery, RDBMS, View, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-10-18
- Making XQuery Control Structures Work for You: The XQuery Language Is the XML Analogue of SQL, Designed to Augment XPath 2.0 by Working With Sets of Values, Not Just With Single Scalar Values
- A database programmer who had spent some time working with an early XQuery implementation, once referred to the language as the smiley language. When the author asked whether that had to do with the simplicity of the language, the programmer replied in Hungarian-accented English, "Oh, no, the language itself is...
- Tags: XQuery, SQL, XPath, Language, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2008-08-19
- XQuery USE ME (XqUSEme) 1.3.6 (Windows)
- XqUSEme is written to allow XQueries in Firefox via the open-source Saxon-B XQuery engine, or, with an extra download, via the Berkeley DB XML native XML database. The latter can also allow storage of XML documents but it is about 52 MB to download, and about 400+ MB after installation....
- Tags: XQuery, Microsoft Windows, Brett Zamir, XqUSEme, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- Application-Tailored XML Storage
- Several native approaches to storing large XML data sets exist. In all of these approaches the internal data representation is designed to support any ad-hoc XQuery query. This paper argues that XQuery and its data model are too universal and any one-size-fits-all XML representation leads to significant overheads in terms...
- Tags: XQuery, Russian Academy Of Science, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2008-01-01
- XML Warehousing Meets Sociology: Introducing the W3C XQuery Working Group
- This paper describes a novel application of XML and Web based technologies, a sociological study of the W3C standardization process. They propose a new methodology and tools, to be used by sociologists to study the standardization process, illustrated by the W3C XQuery Working Group. The novelty of the approach has...
- Tags: W3C, XQuery, Standardization, University Of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Strategic Planning, XML, Strategy, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Update XML in DB2 9.5
- One of the most significant new features in IBM DB2 9.5 for Linux, Unix and Windows is the XML update functionality. The previous version, DB2 9, introduced pureXML support for storing and indexing of XML data and querying it with the SQL/XML and XQuery languages. Modifications to an XML document...
- Tags: XQuery, IBM DB2, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-11
- Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries
- The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. This paper studies the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, where both the query and the views are described by a tree pattern language, appropriately extended to capture a large XQuery subset....
- Tags: XQuery, XML Query, View, XML, Performance Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-09-28
- pureXML in DB2 9: Which Way to Query Your XML Data?
- DB2 9 introduces pureXML support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format. To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. One can use XQuery and SQL separately, but one can also use XQuery embedded in SQL and vice versa. This...
- Tags: pureXML, XQuery, SQL, XML-Data, IBM DB2, DB2 9, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Introducing XQJ: A Java API for XQuery
- Query is a declarative language for querying XML that's similar to SQL for querying relational data. Most Java developers are familiar with JDBC, which provides a standard Java API to interact with a variety of SQL engines operating against relational data sources. XQJ has the same goal: It provides Java...
- Tags: Relational Data, Java API, XQuery, API, XQJ, JSR 225 Specification, Programming Languages, XML, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2007-05-22
- XQuery: Navigating Input Documents Using Paths
- Path expressions are used to navigate input documents to select elements and attributes of interest. This paper explains how to use path expressions to select elements and attributes from an input document and apply predicates to filter those results. It also covers the different methods of accessing input documents. A...
- Tags: XQuery, O'Reilly Media Inc., Path Expression, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-04-01
- TeXSLMate 1.0 (Mac)
- he TeXSLMate PlugIn adds an XSLT/XQuery debugging palette to the popular TextMate text editor for Mac OS X. While editing an XSTL stylesheet or XQuery program in TextMate, you can open the TeXSLMate palette to conveniently transform/execute the stylesheet/query against any source file and see different views of the result...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Console, XQuery, Palette, Todd Ditchendorf, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-12-29
- Unleashing the Power of the Query - Querying Relational and XML Data Using SQL/XML and XQuery
- Users of DB2 UDB Version 8.x XML functionality might be familiar with some SQL/XML publishing functions, but XQuery is a new language that has been added to DB2. One needs to understand it a little better and see how it works with SQL/XML to query and publish XML data in...
- Tags: XQuery, SQL, XML-Data, IBM DB2, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-08-28
- Investigate navigation in XQuery
- Designed to be a language in which queries are concise and easily understood, XQuery is also flexible enough to query a broad spectrum of XML information sources, including both databases and documents. This sample chapter from XQuery: The XML Query Language investigates one of the primary features of XQuery, navigation....
- Tags: XQuery, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-06-12
- AquaQuery 1.0 (Mac)
- AquaQuery is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that serves as a basic XQuery authoring/debugging tool. AquaQuery is based on Apple's excellent NSXML and WebKit toolkits. XQuery support is provided, of course, by NSXML. Usage is simple and straightforward. Compose or paste your XML source document...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, XQuery, Todd Ditchendorf, AquaQuery, Result Tab, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-02-22
- Safari Guide 1.3.1 (Mac)
- Safari Guide is a free application for Mac OS X Tiger that allows developers to evaluate arbitrary XPath, XQuery, and JavaScript expressions against the current frontmost Safari webpage. New in version 1.2: JavaScript support! Using Safari Guide is easy... Open a webpage or XML document in a Safari browser...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, JavaScript, XQuery, XPath, Todd Ditchendorf, Safari Guide, XML, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-01-08
- XSLT Cookbook: Querying XML
- This paper covers recipes for using XSLT as an XML query language. Querying XML means extracting information from one or more XML documents to answer questions about facts and relationships occurring in and among these documents. By analogy, querying an XML document involves asking the same types of questions of...
- Tags: XSLT, XQuery, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2005-11-21
- We want our XQuery
- We want our XQueryDon't worryMicrosoft won't leave developers stranded. At this very moment they're cranking out their own functional equivalent which will make XQuery irrelevant.You get your XQuery ......In SQL Server 2005.Please note that Microsoft *does* support XQuery in SQL Server 2005. This is described in http://www.stylusstudio.com/michael_rys.html The...
- Tags: XML, XQuery, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2005-05-02
- We want our XQuery
- While XQuery has gained a lot of support and interest over the past two years, Microsoft has apparently bailed on the standard. In January, the Redmond software giant announced that it was dropping XQuery from the next release of its .NET Framework (version 2.0, or Whidbey). The folks at...
- Tags: XQuery
- Blog posts 2005-05-02
- XML Query (XQuery) Support in Oracle Database 10g Release 2
- XQuery is designed to work with the XML data model, and be a comprehensive query language for data that is expressed in XML - just as SQL has been the query language for much of the world's structured data expressed as relational tables, and as keyword searches have powered much...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., XQuery, XML Query, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-05-01
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