If you’ve got relational tables, you want SQL. If you’ve got XML, you want an XML programming language. You could mix and match and, for instance, use Java to program a relational database.

Neal Ford, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at Thoughtworks, (in his blog post on December 5, 2006) calls this use of multiple programming languages “ polyglot programming “.

If you’ve got relational tables, you want SQL. If you’ve got XML, you want an XML programming language. You could mix and match and, for instance, use Java to program a relational database.

If you’ve got XML, you want an XML programming language. You could mix and match and, for instance, use Java to program a relational database. But you would write a lot more code, it’s a lot more ...

We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup ...