DataDirect Technologies Announces Top 10 XQuery and XML Predictions for 2005

DataDirect Technologies Announces Top 10 XQuery and XML Predictions for 2005: "BEDFORD, MA - 01/05/2005 - DataDirect Technologies, the leading provider of components for connecting software to data, today announced its top 10 XML and XQuery predictions for 2005. The coming year will bring many new developments to XQuery, the highly anticipated language for querying and creating XML documents, that will ultimately lead to a complete overhaul in the way software applications are built."

(Via Blogdigger Search: xquery.)

Is 2005 the year of XQuery? Well if you believe the vendors pushing XQuery products, it very well may be. Of course, there is still that little problem of XQuery not even being out of Working Draft status. My prediction for 2005 is that come 2006, XQuery still won't be a recommendation and the vendors will proclaim 2006 as the year of XQuery.

Of course there are enough implementations around now (including one in my personal favorite database, Sleepycat DB XML) that XQuery is starting to feel a little more real. I've certainly posted a lot more about XQuery in the past month then I have in quite sometime. Now, the day you see me posting XQuery example code is when you know XQuery has really arrived. :-) It could happen I guess.

Another prediction, XQuery is still three years away from being a viable technology and at that point we'll have so thoroughly mastered using XSL-T to solve the same problems that no one will care anymore.

Posted by Kimbro Staken