IBM and Microsoft will shortly deliver to the World Wide Web Consortium a suite of test programs featuring the XQuery standard for analyzing XML documents, IBM said in a statement Thursday. XQuery is a language for parsing and extracting information from XML documents or databases containing XML-tagged information. A standard method for querying hierarchical XML databases could boost their use, much as SQL became a powerful standard way of querying table-based data. The test suite is a series of programs that illustrate the features of the emerging standard, IBM said.
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