Chapter 1. A Tour of XQuery
Introduction
XQuery 1.0 is a concise but flexible query language for XML. XQuery is the product of many years of work by individuals and companies from around the world. Actively developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Query and XSL Working Groups from the first W3C workshop on Query Languages in 1998 through today, XQuery contains ideas that are both decades old and brand-new.
XQuery is mainly intended for use with XML data, but is also finding uses as a language for data integration, even with data sources that may not be XML but can be viewed through an XML lens. Time will tell how successful XQuery will become, but the stage is set for it to become for XML what Structured Query Language (SQL) has become ...
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