Xml Generator Query Language News

Two XGQL's news today!!

Once again for the french-speaking person, a XGQL's tutorial has published developpez.com : http://xgql.developpez.com/xgql/tutorial/

XGQL 2.0.2 is also available.
Thank to XGQL's contributor!

A new article avour XGQL was published on serverside.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45561

No need to speak ....
XGQL 2.0
If you want some ... come GET SOME !

In 1.5 you were able to:

- Use XGQL cursor ability to query relational databases
- The new ‘datasource’ tag allowing to get data from http, ftp anf local or network drives easier than any other tool

Now XGQL 2.0 also supports:

- Multiple databases connections
- Cookies
- Full UTF-8 encoding
- API: Possybility to use the XGQL Variables in your JAVA Code
- Use the include mecanism to embed XGQL files in other XGQL files... read more

For the french-speaking person, two articles have published in the press in 2006.

The first one is on the developpez.com community: http://xgql.developpez.com/xgql/presentation/
The second one is on magazine Linux+DVD of December 2006: http://www.lpmagazine.org/fr/linuxplus/issues/12_2006.html

This articles aims to show the facility to used XGQL to integrate data coming from heterogeneous sources in a simple uses cases, with many examples.

The version 1.5 of XGQL is now available.

You will find out two new exciting features:
- New XGQL cursor ability to query relational databases
- The new ‘datasource’ tag allowing to get data from http, ftp anf local or network drives easier than any other tool !

You should think about XGQL as an XML generator feeding itself from heterogeneous data sources.

Why is it different form XQuery ?
Because Xquery do not provide any way to access Relational Databases yet. Xupdate is currently a draft and even when it will be implemented, there is a high probability taht the implementation will differ depending on the Databases. We already have this problem with Xpath implementations ….... read more

We are proud to present the version 1.1 of XGQL.

What is XGQL ?
XGQL is an open source middleware . An XML formalism is used to access Databases and deliver XML streams.
Symeria actively participates to its development.
What's really new with XGQL ?

* The XML formalism of XGQL allows to to use the power of XQuery and SQL at the same time making the XML stream generation easier than it has ever been.
* You have the ability to use XGQL as an API, it is absolutely not bound to a Webserver. It's easy to use it in your J2EE projects
* You are DB independent... read more

The first version of Xml Generator Query Language is now available at http://xgql.sourceforge.net

Purpose:
Offering a simple unified way to access, modify, transform and generate XML streams from XML datasources or relational DB.