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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Joshua Allen wrote: > I missed some of the thread, so maybe someone has already > brought this up, but xml queries and xslt aim at slightly > different problem domains. With a SQL-like syntax you can > more tersely represent operations such as, "Show me all employee > elements where the department reports through accounting". > Most companies commony use SQL syntax with joins, WHERE IN () > criteria and so on that are fairly natural in SQL but difficult > in xslt/xpath. By the same token, there are tons of things > that are very natural to represent as XSLT that would be impossible > or at least very bizzare to represent as SQL. There's a proposal out (I saw the link on xmlhack.com) for a language very much like SQL crossed with XPath, that allows you to go (this is from memory): SELECT <xpath> FROM <file> WHERE <xpath> AND <xpath> Or something like that. Should give back most of the power of SQL, and a naive implementation is fairly trivial. -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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