Maintained by Jonathan Robie, Research and Development Fellow, Software AG.

Intended as input for the upcoming W3C query language activity, the XQL language described in this paper contains several features not in previously published versions of the language including joins, links, text containment, and extensible functions.

Consists of a data definition and manipulation language like SQL and a database API.

This article reviews the major proposals for a standard query language discussed at XL 98.

Discusses the simplest and probably most common queries. The tutorial is intended to present a quick overview.