[xquery-talk] XQuery and databases - XQuery 2.0

[Pavel Minaev]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Brian Maso<brian at blumenfeld-maso.com> wrote:
> I had heard that future versions of the SQL standard are to bring XML in to
> SQL -- basically make non-validated XML nodes as valid column types and add
> intra-XML indexing.

It's called SQL/XML, and it has been there since SQL-2003:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/XML