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Resources

• Review the XQuery, XSLT, and XPath 2.0 specifications on the W3C site.
  
  
• Visit XQueryNow, an online community site for developers building XML-based applications. It includes a blog by author Frank Cohen.
  
  
• Read Howard Katz's "introduction to XQuery" here on developerWorks (September 2003).
  
  
• Read JSR 225, the XQuery API for Java.
  
  
• Check out the XQuery Test Suite, the proposed test suite for XQuery from IBM and Microsoft.
  
  
• Explore these groups that are working to extend the SQL standard for XML operations:
  • The SQLX Group
  • The INCITS H2 group
  • ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2
  
  
• Download XQEngine, an open-source Java component for querying XML documents, now hosted on SourceForge.
  
  
• Check out the XQuery Normalizer and Static Analyzer (XQNSTA), a Java API and GUI for normalizing and computing the static type of XQuery expressions (alphaWorks, March 2004).
  
  
• Visit the author's Web site, PushToTest.com, where you'll find TestMaker, a free open-source test tool that now includes an XQuery engine for parsing Web service responses.
  
  
• Take a look at IBM's Xperanto project, which leverages XML, XQuery, text search capabilities, and Web services technology to enable users to search XML documents, flat files, spreadsheets, and other sources of information housed in a single database.
  
  
• Find more XML resources on the developerWorks XML zone.
  
  
• Browse for books on these and other technical topics.
  
  
• Find out how you can become an IBM Certified Developer in XML and related technologies.