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Re: XSLT and XQuery

• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: XSLT and XQuery
• From: Soumitra Sengupta <soumitra@b...>
• Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:25:52 -0600
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Mike:

Why not punt on strong typing for now and create XQuery that supports 
INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE along with FOR, LET.  Come back with 
typing and layer that over XQuery when all the technical challenges are 
sorted out.  That would be XQuery for XML without the Schemas.  There 
were enough Query Language stuff floating along before XSD.  We can let 
the application deal with the typing for now, can't we?  

If we are worried about real world implementations and making the 
developer's life easier, we should proceed carefully.  Otherwise, we 
will create so much confusion out there that market adoption will not 
happen till the dust settles.

I am of the opinion, if something takes time to bake, it will take time 
to bake no matter what.  Standards are always compromises between 
commercial, technical and elegance interests anyway.

Regarding XQuery in XML syntax or not, I have not studied this well 
enough to say anything.

Soumitra

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