XML has been in use for over a decade and it’s now getting a boost thanks to a new standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This week the
even seems to be the magic number for the W3C. Seven years after releasing XSLT 1.0 (which also debuted XPath), they followed up with XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery
his is the third in a series of DevX articles on the new hierarchical XML processing capabilities possible with navigationless database hierarchical processing. The first article covered the basics of
ow that you’ve seen a more detailed comparison of CAM to XML Schema in Part 2, this section builds upon that foundation to explore several of those strengths in more
alidating an XML document entails confirming that the document is both well-formed and conforms to a specific set of rules specified with a Document Type Definition (DTD), an XML Schema,
NSI SQL can naturally perform full multi-path hierarchical data query processing that far exceeds the single linear path processing performed by XPath and XQuery today (see the article “Navigationless Database
ML data in standard database processing is not being used fully or correctly in business applications today. Current XML hierarchical database query processing is basically limited to single path linear
colleague of mine, a database programmer who had spent some time working with an early XQuery implementation, once referred to the language as the smiley language. When I asked whether
eclarative programming can take a little getting used to, especially if your standard mode of operation is working with languages like Java or C#. In essence, such programming requires that