http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2181 In a panel discussion at Software Development 2004 entitled "Marrying SQL, XML, Web Services and Grid Computing", Peter Coffee of eWEEK magazine best summarized the state of these four technologies when he said that customers would not abandon SQL, wanted to use XML to repurpose data, and considered Web Services the default implementation strategy for many projects. On the other hand, they felt grid computing was still three to five years away. Community Databases http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2164 The article "XML and Databases", by Ronald Bourret, has recently been translated into French and Chinese. Databases http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1707 The latest version of native XML database X-Hive adds support for XQuery and DOM Level 3 Load and Save. Databases Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1592 Kimbro Staken announced the release of XIndice 1.0, an open-source native XML database in Java. Databases Java http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1503 Ron Bourret announced the release of the first alpha of the Java version of XML-DBMS 2.0. Databases Java http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1493 The W3C has given developers a huge pile of holiday reading, with first drafts of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, as well as a collection of revised query drafts. XSLT Databases http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1492 While XQuery is usually considered an inappropriate tool for querying RDF collections or Topic Maps, Jonathan Robie demonstrated at XML 2001 that using XQuery functions over their normalized forms can be practical and not especially complex. Databases RDF http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1487 XML Global have announced the release of their XML database, GoXML DB 2.0, with support for the W3C's developing XQuery technology. Databases