Jonathan Robie is the XML program manager at DataDirect Technologies. Before joining DataDirect, Jonathan was an XML research specialist at Software AG. Jonathan works very closely with the W3C; he is a co-author of the XQuery specification, has participated in several W3C Working Groups, and speaks regularly at XML conferences. Jonathan wrote an XQuery tutorial for a book called XQuery from the Experts which is now available on Amazon.com.
Most businesses have an urgent need for up-to-date, accurate information based on data from multiple data sources. It would be much easier if all your data were stored in one database so it can be queried as a whole, but this is rarely practical. In the real world, data integration is ...Dec. 14, 2006 10:00 AM EST Reads: 10,279
