Altova® MapForce® auto-generates standards-conformant XQuery code for mapping one XML Schema to another XML Schema. A visual data integration tool, MapForce® allows you to define data mappings graphically and then generate XQuery code to implement the data transformation. The ability to generate XQuery code allows you work with XQuery in a native implementation with MapForce® acting as a visual XQuery builder, and the XQuery code produced by MapForce® can be executed in an XML-capable database.

Altova® XMLSpy® 2007 includes native, schema-aware support for XQuery 1.0, including creating, editing, debugging, profiling and executing XQuery files. XQuery is an important new language for extracting information from XML documents and databases. Built largely on the robust XPath 2.0 specification, XQuery is predicted to be for XML what SQL is to the relational database. Altova XMLSpy® 2007 provides powerful support for XQuery and XPath 2.0 and includes an XQuery debugger and an XQuery profiler. Support for both standards has been updated to comply with the respective standards released by the W3C on January 23, 2007.

Need to access legacy or other non-XML data formats and relational data? It's easy with Stylus Studio XML Deployment Adapters — high-performance Java components that can extend DataDirect XQuery by providing bi-directional programmatic access to virtually any data source (EDI, flat files, relational, and others) as XML. Stylus Studio also provides integrated support for developing applications which use DataDirect XQuery.

Need to access legacy or other non-XML data formats and relational data? It's easy with Stylus Studio XML Deployment Adapters — high-performance Java components that can extend DataDirect XQuery by providing bi-directional programmatic access to virtually any data source (EDI, flat files, relational, CSV, TSV, Binary Data, etc.) as XML. Stylus Studio also provides integrated support for developing applications which use DataDirect XQuery.

DataDirect XQuery is a high-performance Java component that implements both XQuery and the XQuery for Java API, used to query XML and relational data together. It supports most relational databases (SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, etc.), runs on any Java platform, and is easily embeddable into almost any Java program. DataDirect XQuery works with any J2EE Application Server, although no application server is required. This tutorial shows how to use various relational and XML tools in Stylus Studio that use DataDirect XQuery to further simplifies relational and XML data integration.

The XQuery-talk blog was started by Java guru Jason Hunter at xquery.com - it provides a helpful means to communicate with the growing world-wide community of XQuery developers. Bookmark the ATOM or RSS feed in your newsreader today.

Stylus Studio, the industry-leading provider of XML development tools and components for advanced data integration, today announced the availability of a new XQuery tutorial entitled — "Blooming FLWOR: An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR Expression". Forget about those old-fashioned, costly online XQuery training seminars – "An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR Expression" is informative, fast, easy to learn, and best of all 100% Free. The new tutorial is written by XML industry guru, Dr. Michael Kay, founder of Saxonica, the producer of the Saxon XQuery and XSLT processor. Dr. Kay is a member of the W3C committee on XQuery, XPath, and XSLT, and the author of numerous best-selling XML books. Software developers and managers looking give development teams an extra edge can read the new FLWOR tutorial online today.

Stylus Studio, the industry-leading provider of XML development tools for advanced data integration, today announced the availability of the world's fastest XQuery tutorial. Unlike over-priced, boring, or confusing online XQuery training seminars, "Learn XQuery in 10 Minutes" is fast, easy, and free. The new tutorial is written by XML industry guru, Dr. Michael Kay, founder of Saxonica, the producer of the Saxon XQuery and XSLT processor. Dr. Kay is a member of the W3C committee on XQuery, XPath, and XSLT, and the author of numerous best-selling XML books. Software developers and managers looking for ways to give their development teams a leg-up can read the new tutorial online today.

In the real world, data is not read-only. While XQuery provides an excellent model for simple and powerful updates to XML, updates are missing from XQuery 1.0. Several vendors are implementing their own proprietary extensions to provide update, and several update proposals have circulated within the W3C XML Query Working Group and at various conferences. Join XQuery authors Jonathan Robie (DataDirect Technologies) and Daniela Florescu (Oracle Corporation) for a talk about their recently published requirements document which discusses various approaches to adding an Update Facility to XQuery. After identifying some of the major questions associated with this work and exploring the problem space and solution space without attempting to predict the answers that the Working Group will find, speakers hope to get feedback from the XML community to bring back into the XQuery Update effort.

Report Abstract: Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition from DataDirect Technologies is a mature XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) that offers developers a complete set of capabilities for increasing XML development productivity. In particular, the latest release augments their popular XML editor, XSLT debugger, and other XML tools with extensive legacy data integration capabilities, enabling developers to create XML data services in either Java or .NET environments that access a wide range of legacy data formats and systems. The key to Stylus Studio's success with customers is the completeness of their offering as well as their platform-neutral delivery approach, unlike the platform-specific offerings of its competitors. Download the entire report for free.

An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR Expression covers the principal parts of the powerful XQuery For, Let, Where, Order By, and Return expression. This XQuery tutorial includes several FLWOR examples and easy to understand explanations.

Stylus Studio provides many features for working with XML Query (XQuery), including a graphical mapper that allows you to construct a query without writing any code, and tools to help you run and debug XQueries. This XQuery tutorial covers the following topics:

Getting Started with XQuery in Stylus Studio, Building an XQuery Using the Mapper, Debugging XQuery Documents, Creating an XQuery Scenario, Generating Java Code for XQuery.

This article describes how to Open/Query and Save XML to/from Berkeley DB XML 2.0 from the Stylus Studio XML IDE. Berkeley DB XML is an application-specific native XML data manager built on Berkeley DB, a widely deployed data management engine.

This tutorial describes Stylus Studio's integrated developer tools support for Raining Data TigerLogic XML data management server (XDMS), and includes a tutorial on how to build a sample XQuery application that invokes a Web service, then processes the results, directly within the XQuery expression. Sample files and detailed step-by-step instructions are included.

Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Edition features XQuery tools for developing advanced XQuery-based XML content management applications using Mark Logic's Content Interaction Server. This tutorial provides an overview of the integrated support for Mark Logic's Content Interaction Server in Stylus Studio, including: Editing Support for Mark Logic's Built-in XQuery Functions, Support for Mark Logic XQuery Function Prototypes, Access Mark Logic Content Interaction Server in Stylus Studio, Support for Mark Logic's XQuery Processor in Stylus Studio's XQuery Editor, and more.

Mike Olson is the President and CEO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, a widely-used open source developer database software in the world with more than 200 million deployments. Mr. Olson has held numerous positions since joining Sleepycat in 1998 — he was one of the original authors of the Berkeley DB software, and he served as Vice President of Marketing before being appointed CEO in 2000. Last year, Sleepycat Software released Berkeley DB XML, a new edition of its developer database that stores and retrieves data using native XML.

Stylus Studio is an XML IDE for XML data integration, featuring advanced support for XQuery development, including XQuery editing, mapping, debugging and performance profiling, as well as tools for working with XSLT, XPath and XML Schema. Ivan Pedruzzi, Stylus Studio's Senior Product Architect and editor of The Stylus Scoop newsletter, recently had the opportunity to meet up with Mike on behalf of the Stylus Studio developer community. This interview covers the impact of XML technologies on database technologies and other topics related to XML data integration.

Complex XQuery documents require robust debugging features - this tutorial covers how to set breakpoints in your XQuery documents, how to monitor the value of XQuery variables, trace the sequence of XQuery expressions that created a particular XML output, how to use breakpoints, and more.

Help get the word out! The "XQuery for All" campaign is an ongoing effort to mobilize the Microsoft XQuery developer community who have lost their right to XQuery. You'll find free campaign gear, an FAQ, an online petition, a list of ways to help, and more. Many have already signed the petition, and together we can make the world a better place to code!

This article explains how DynCorp (CSC) used XQuery at NASA's Johnson Space Center to Simplify XML Data Access and Integration in a real-world data integration application. Michael Ritchson is a systems integrator employed with a DynCorp (recently bought out by CSC), who is the present contractor for NASA's Aircraft Operations in Houston, Texas. His duties include Architecting and developing JAVA J2EE web applications for their managers, team leaders, and employees, which vary from Quality Document routing systems to CRM tools. This article describes Michael's XQuery experiences, in his own words.