> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudio Hessel Peixoto Gomes [mailto:chpg@inf.ufrgs.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:11 AM
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: XML Query Languages
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> I would like to know its opinions about XML query languages.
> Present situations and trends.
At the moment, XPath is the closest thing there is to a widely supported XML query language standard.
There are a number of less widely supported XML query languages out there, some of which inspired XPath. See the workshop proceedings you can find at http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/
There's now a W3C XML Query activity http://www.w3.org/XML/Query that may be close to putting out a first draft of their proposed query language.
I believe that there's a parallel activity in "ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32" to define XML extensions to the SQL standard. I know little about its status ... can anybody point me to a public Web page for this project, or briefly summarize it?