December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
An outline of a consistent syntax for querying an XML document was laid down in September 1998, when representatives from Microsoft, Texcel, and webMethods presented the syntax to the XSL working group. Since then, that syntax—although not an official standard—has rapidly gained ground as the query syntax of choice, and there is a growing number of applications based on that syntax. The original proposal may be found at http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/1998/09/XQL-proposal.html. The theory on which the design was based can be found in a white paper by Jonathan Robie at http://www.texcel.no/whitepapers/xql-design.html.
An XQL query is a query to one or more XML documents. The query is given one ...
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