support for some XML (either files or strings). In other words, it supports using SQL to query XML. Ok, that's not xQuery, however there's no reason that a DBD couldn't be made to handle xQuery rather than SQL (in fact, once you had the xQuery engine, it would be very easy). I don't know if this is mixing fish and bicycles, but it would save having to reinvent an interface and could piggyback on the many DBI plugin and extension modules.