Jerry King, general manager for DataDirect's XML products told OpenEnterpriseTrends.com"

"Developers and architects are asking us two questions,” (1) How can I get my relational data into XML?; and (2) How can I take the data access and transformation routines I am building, and my artifacts, and wrap them up into a program The growing interest is coming as more architects and developers understand the integration power of XML. "Last year ran a dev survey that showed told us less half of our customers had even touched XQuery, let alone used it for anything important [in their companies]," King told OET "But, since then, the XQuery section of our site has gone from the least traveled area to consistently rank in the number 2 or 3 position. In addition, we've done a more recent survey and more than half of [our customers] said they were actively using XQuery, and a significant portion of those said they were doing something meaningful with it. The numbers have literally inverted."