XML Query Language is a query language created in 1998.
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We propose a query language for XML, called XML-QL, as one possible answer to these questions. The language has a SELECT-WHERE construct, like SQL, and borrows features of query languages recently developed by the database research community for semistructured data.
WHERE <book>
<publisher><name>Addison-Wesley</></>
<title> $t</>
<author> $a</>
</> IN "www.a.b.c/bib.xml"
CONSTRUCT <result>
<author> $a</>
<title> $t</>
</>