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XQuery

*XQuery is a language to extract data from XML documents. It differs in emphasis from XPath, in that XQuery is for extracting data, where XPath is for addressing nodes in an XML document, for transformation purposes. I'm still vague about exactly how substantial that difference is, but I understand that a goal of XQuery is to be optimised for the manipulation of very large amounts of data. Erm....

Status: Working group
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Norman
1 January 2001