XML has become an international standard because of its flexibility, its platform and application independence, and its widespread support across industry boundaries and vendors.
DataDirect Technologies offers the following products in support of XML so your commercial software products can handle heterogeneous data sources, and in turn, give your customers access to the data they need.
The XQuery language is now recognized as one of the best approaches for handling and processing XML, and DataDirect XQuery is the XQuery implementation of choice. DataDirect XQuery can be easily embedded in your software product to:
DataDirect XQuery is ideal for embedding in software products because it doesn't require any servers or other software.
Learn more about the benefits of embedding DataDirect XQuery.
XML has rapidly become the required format for exchanging data and information with business partners, suppliers, and customers. Creating XML from existing formats such as EDI, CSV, and other legacy formats is a time-consuming, error prone prgramming process. DataDirect XML Converters make it easy and quick to convert EDI, flat files, and much more to XML and back!
More than 300 software vendors embed DataDirect Connect in their software products to provide stable, out-of-the-box data connectivity to Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and other data sources. In addition to database connectivity, the DataDirect Connect family of database drivers supports the native XML capabilities provided by each database vendor.
Embedding DataDirect Connect not only allows your product access to multiple relational data sources; it also gives you the flexibility to access XML data however it is stored in the database.
Learn more about how DataDirect Connect can support processing XML in your software products.
Our DataDirect Shadow line of mainframe integration products makes your core legacy applications and data available to .NET and Java developers for new XML-based projects, often without their even being aware that they are accessing a mainframe platform.
Learn more about the XML capabilities in DataDirect Shadow.
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