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Standard database queries within standard request-response protocols is disclosed. A database query according to a predetermined query language such as SQL is first wrapped according to a predetermined markup language such as XML. The query is then also wrapped according to a predetermined transport

Standard database queries within standard request-response protocols is disclosed. A database query according to a predetermined query language such as SQL is first wrapped according to a predetermined markup language such as XML. The query is then also wrapped according to a predetermined transport protocol such as HTTP. The resulting twice-wrapped database query can then be submitted from a client to a server over a TCP/IP-compliant network, such as the Internet, for example.

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1. In a network system that includes a querying computer system and a query processing computer system that are configured to communicate via a transport protocol, and that are both configured to process a markup language, a method for the querying computer system to submit a database query in a for

1. In a network system that includes a querying computer system and a query processing computer system that are configured to communicate via a transport protocol, and that are both configured to process a markup language, a method for the querying computer system to submit a database query in a format that may be processed by the query processing computer system, the method comprising:an act of accessing a database query that is structured according to a query language; an act of wrapping the database query according to a markup language to indicate the start and stop of the database query, and to identify the database query as being a database query; an act of further wrapping the wrapped database query according to the transport protocol; and an act of outputting the further wrapped database query.