[announce]Xalan-J Users,
The first XQuery component to implement the
XQuery API for Java™ (XQJ), DataDirect XQuery™, is now available in beta.
DataDirect XQuery allows you execute XQuery expressions against any
relational database (SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2).
why should a xalan-j user care about xquery? Well it has to do with
differences between XSLT and XQuery. XQuery was designed to be able to query XML
or any other data source that can be represented as XML (for example, relational
data), and supports familliar SQL-like programming language constructs
for operating on XML data, for example, looping, grouping, and joining
data. Overall, it could simplify a lot of tricky XML-relational
data integration programming code.
DataDirect XQuery implements XQJ - think of
XQJ as the JDBC for XML (or a JAXP for XQuery processors), using XQJ you
can invoke an XQuery against any database and process the results. Get
started today with XQuery and XQJ using the beta release of DataDirect
XQuery. Give it a spin at: http://www.datadirect.com/products/xquery/xquerybetahome/.
To learn more about XQuery, read our XQuery
Tutorial at: http://www.datadirect.com/developer/xquery/xquery_tutorial/index.ssp
To learn more about the XQuery API for
Java, read our XQJ Tutorial at: http://www.datadirect.com/developer/xquery/topics/xqj_tutorial/index.ssp
Sincerely,
The DataDirect XML Team
http://www.datadirect.com
http://www.datadirect.com
