Several of the other features within SQL Server 2005 leverage the XML data-type to pass information around. For example, both Service Broker and triggers transfer data around the server in XML data-type instances. This means that you can easily leverage...

SQL Server 2005 has an XQuery implementation that provides full support for the parent axis, as defined in the XPath specification. Since our XQuery implementation is statically typed, we also support the static typing of the parent axis, as defined in...

The W3C XQuery Testing Task Force (of which I am a member) has released version 0.6 of the XML Query Test Suite. This is currently available at http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/ . The test suite consists of XQuery expressions, results and source...

There are a number of cases where it would be useful to be able to run XQuery statements over the result of an XQuery expression which constructs new values. Unfortunately, directly querying over constructed XML is not supported in SQL Server 2005, so...