XQuery or XML Query Language is a W3C specification that
provides flexible query facilities to extract data from real and virtual
documents and collections both locally and on the
World Wide Web, providing interaction between the Web world and the database
world. It is a standardized way of searching through semi-structured data that
is either physically stored as XML or virtualized as XML. The XQuery
effort at W3C is lead by the XML Query Working Group.
W3C XML Query (XQuery) The XML Query language has already been widely implemented even though it is not yet final, and there is a lot of interest in its development. The documents are currently out for public review, and the Working Group is required by W3C Process to address all comments before the documents can progress.
