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Are you an XML Superstar? You might be but unaware of your potential. Here is a contest exclusively for guys like you. International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) is launching a developer contest . The entry to this IDUG contest is very easy.Invent a creative use of XML, XQuery or DB2 and record yourself doing it. You can do anything you want as long as it includes a reference to XML, XQuery or DB2.

Let’s start with the basics. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It is a standard approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the same standards body that brought you other Internet standards like HTML. In fact, HTML and XML are closely related, and indeed, look very similar. However, XML is much more rigid in its definition and can address a number of problems that HTML is simply not designed to address.