On 1 Dec 2004 18:44:50 -0800, terryperkins@c... (Terry P) wrote:

>Tjerk,
>Thanks for the response.  
>In particular, I expect to be using a DB2 database with XML Extenders
>(IBM).  I may need this on different platforms - Linux, ISeries,
>Win2000.
>
>A Java/SQL solution may be best.  I am hoping for something like a
>Java class that can parse the XPath and create the Where clause of a
>SQL query.  Special SQL functions might be used to emulate the
>standard XPath functions.
>
>XPath has been around for a while, so I am surprised that I have not
>been able to find "off the shelf" tools to do this.
>
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If you go to http://xquery.com/ you see this blurb:

"what is xquery?"
"XQuery is a technology under development by the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) that's designed to query collections of XML data -- not just XML files,
but anything that can appear as XML, including relationtional databases.
XQuery has broad support from IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle as well as
application server vendors such as BEA and Software AB."

I may of misquoted, and this may be accurate or not I don't know. It is by
Jason Hunter who I believe has a good reputation in these matters.

HTH


Jeff Kish