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Why we need XML query standards.

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Why we need XML query standards.(Commentary)

Article Excerpt
Despite a shortage of sophisticated XML query tools, Internet demands have forced companies to present their data in various formats. In one sense little has changed, as SQL queries have long been used to combine data for different purposes and audiences. Now however, the output is XML, and while the tools used to generate or consume XML may be different, the structure is similar to structures created by traditional report writers.

Relational databases have neither hierarchy nor sequence, but XML uses both to structure data. This is a good match for the way XML data is used. Most Web sites use data front relational databases, though it rarely looks relational on a Web...

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