Jonathan Robie, a co-inventor of XQuery, believes the innovative XML query language is a critical tool to help software developers and systems integrators efficiently integrate data from a variety of sources to create the XML needed for Web development. Robie is a technology leader at DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), and is a member of the XQuery Working Group.