Several SQL-to-XML conversion and translation tools are available. The Enterprise and Professional versions of the XMLSpy products from Altova.com can produce an XML schema from a relational database.

For a SQL programmer, SQL/XML is easy to learn because it involves additions to the existing SQL language. SQL is a mature language with many tools and infrastructure in place -- including Java ...

For a SQL programmer, SQL/XML is easy to learn because it involves additions to the existing SQL language. SQL is a mature language with many tools and infrastructure in place -- including Java ...

This class makes it very easy, almost trivial, to convert SQL query results into XML, but a major disadvantage of OracleXMLQuery is that it is a proprietary solution.

NoSQL, with its data interchange formats such as JSON and XML, is less static than SQL, he said. SQL’s popularity has been in decline since February.