According to Joe McKendrick, the XQuery steamroller is...well...on full steam. Bottom line: we're here, we're XQueried, get used to it...

Larry Kim, Product manager of XML Products Group at DataDirect Technologies shared the results of a survey the company just commissioned on the long-anticipated XQuery standard. XQuery promises to do for XML data what SQL did for relational data — that is, make it possible to write a standardized query that will pull the right data out of any database, regardless of vendor or format.

The survey of 550 XML developers finds that 52% already started working with XQuery in the last 12 months and another 33% have plans to start using XQuery this year.

It seems that any developer worth salt is going to have to jump onto this bandwagon. All looks promising!

[Hat tip: Joe McKendrick, Waiting to XQuery, ZDNET]