Querying XML

Foreword

by

Don Chamberlin,     IBM Fellow, Almaden Research Center

Companies come and go in the database industry, but one thing remains constant: Jim Melton remains at the center of the database standards community. For more years than anyone cares to remember, Jim has served as editor of the international standard for the SQL database language. Perhaps more importantly, he has translated this standard into terminology that ordinary people can understand and has made it accessible to everyone in a series of successful books.

Now the database world is undergoing its most important transition since the advent of the relational data model in the 1970’s. A new self-describing data format, XML, is emerging as the standard format for exchange ...