Working with XQuery

What is XQuery

XQuery is the query language for XML and is currently under development at the W3C. The many benefits of XQuery include:

  • XQuery allows you to work in one common model no matter what type of data you're working with: relational, XML, or object data.

  • XQuery is ideal for queries that must represent results as XML, to query XML stored inside or outside the database, and to span relational and XML sources.

  • XQuery allows you to create many different types of XML representations of the same data.

  • XQuery allows you to query both relational sources and XML sources, and create one XML result.