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XML seems unstoppable. On the Web, this general-purpose document display language is rapidly replacing HTML. In the office, Microsoft Corp. and OpenOffice have both moved to XML document formats. Even the big database vendors are turning their databases into relational/XML hybrids. That latter effort should soon get a boost, as XQuery, the XML counterpart to the conventional SQL database language, is expected to be become an officially recommended standard of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Of all the XML-based technologies available to us, the one that may be considered the most revolutionary may also be the most neglected. I'm talking about the native XML database.

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Last month, Dr. Edgar F. Codd passed away at the age of 71.

Bell Labs, the research division of Lucent Technologies Inc., announced two new tools aimed at strengthening user...

Whether the future of databases is the traditional, relational and SQL model with XML technologies incorporated into it or a new XML-based model is a matter of debate, according to panelists during a session Tuesday at the Software Development Conference & Expo here.