SQLXML
SQLXML is a former Microsoft technology family that enabled integration of XML with SQL Server. It includes tools, APIs, and runtime components designed to map relational data to XML and to generate XML from SQL queries, as well as to load XML data into relational tables. The goal was to facilitate XML-based data exchange and to provide a schema-driven approach to relate XML documents to relational structures.
Historically, SQLXML emerged in the early 2000s as part of Microsoft's data access stack and the SQL
In more recent SQL Server releases, Microsoft integrated XML support directly into the database engine, introducing
Today, SQLXML is referenced mainly for historical context. The core capabilities it aimed to provide—schema-based mapping