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David Carlisle suggests XQuery is mainly for querying relational databases, Elliotte says it's mainly for XML databases, Mike Champion points to the use cases. All these answers are reasonable. From the beginning, Quilt and XQuery focussed on the ability to use the structure of XML as a way to query anything. When we designed Quilt, relational databases, native XML stores, and XML files were all vivid in our minds. Here's the abstrat from the XQuery spec: XML is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. A query language that uses the structure of XML intelligently can express queries across all these kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML or viewed as XML via middleware. This specification describes a query language called XQuery, which is designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. Cheers, Jonathan
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