Re: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?

> It would be nice to see what IBM actually said rather than this incredibly
> superficial piece of analysis.

Jim Kleewein's answers about XML-aware nicknames and IBM's approach to metadata
integration (data normalization, schema normalization, subset detection,
temporal detection) might be of interest.

http://www.db2mag.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901247

"Part of our vision is the ability to perform XQuery over a large federation of
data sources - over a large virtual database."