The IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 Feature Pack for XML

The IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 Feature Pack for XML provides the latest W3C XML standards support for XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 to improve developer efficiency and innovation. From enterprise to simple Web applications, many application developers have adopted XML as a robust and efficient data format. Native XML languages can not only help simplify XML application scenarios for developers, but also help optimize in terms of performance. Specific benefits delivered in the XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 standards include:

• Helps simplify XML application development and improve developer productivity.
• Query large amounts of data stored in XML outside of a database with XQuery 1.0.
• Designed to improve XML application performance through new features introduced in the W3C specifications to address previous shortcomings.
• Helps improve upon XML application reliability with new support for XML Schema awareness and validation.