Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
unsubscibe -----Original Message----- From: Francis Norton [mailto:francis@r...] Sent: Friday, 04 January, 2002 6:42 AM To: michael.h.kay@n... Cc: 'Jonathan Robie'; 'Elliotte Rusty Harold'; 'Henry S. Thompson'; 'David Carlisle'; www-xml-query-comments@w...; xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: The use of XML syntax in XML Query Michael Kay wrote: > > > Is there a possibility of a solution in which the XML-like syntax becomes > pure XML, and is regarded as a preprocessor syntax, so that a query written > as a well-formed XML document (using element constructors for elements, > processing instructions for PIs, and comments for comments) can then be > translated mechanically into an XQuery expressed as a Unicode string, which > itself uses no XML-like constructs? > An element constructor syntax can be XML compatible in two senses - (1) it *is* XML, and can be both read and processed as such (this being the after all what XML is all about) or (2) it is not XML, but doesn't interfere with XML and can be normally be embedded in XML without breaking the XML or resorting to legibility-reducing escaped syntax. It seems to me that the "pseudo-XML" passes neither test, and Mike's proposal passes both. Francis. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
|
