XML hindered by lack of data connectivity standards.Despite the widespread adoption of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. as the preferred method of displaying and exchanging data via Web-based applications See Web application. , most developers fail to efficiently query their existing data and transport it directly as XML, instead spending additional time and costs in hand coding Writing in a programming language. Hand coding in assembly language or in a third-generation language, such as C or Java, is the traditional way programs have been developed. In contrast, visual programming tools allow full applications or parts of an application to be developed without their applications to mix relational data and XML. These findings were released as part of a study conducted by DataDirect Technologies, Inc., and TheServerSide.com, an online community focused on Java development and middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a issues. Most survey respondents (70 percent) said they process XML and store it as data in a relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . Not surprisingly, though, most of these developers (65 percent) said they would prefer to use a standardised Adj. 1. standardised - brought into conformity with a standard; "standardized education" standardized standard - conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; query-based approach to mixing XML and relational data, rather than hand-code a solution to integrate the data from its various sources. Yet the majority of respondents were unfamiliar with the leading XML query standards: SQL/XML and XQuery. Only 8 percent said they are using SQL/XML, which is available today, and just 5 percent said they plan to use XQuery, which is scheduled for completion in late 2004. The difference between developers seeking a query-based approach to mixing XML and relational data, and those with knowledge of SQL/XML and XQuery, highlights the need for a simple way to get these important industry standard tools into the hands of developers today. DataDirect Connect for SQL/XML allows applications to build XML documents directly as the result of SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. queries or to extract information from XML documents and update relational data. Corporate developers and ISVs are already reaping the benefits of using DataDired Connect for SQL/XML-, which frees them from having to write code to bridge XML hierarchies and relational tables, or from learning the complex and proprietary XML extensions to relational databases. In addition, DataDirect Technologies is introducing XQuery components as the XQuery specification matures. www.datadirect.com |
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