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RE: XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?

• To: "Arjun Ray" <aray@n...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 02:10:16 -0700
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• Thread-topic: XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?

*cough* bs *cough* 
 
XPath doesn't satisfy DBMS vendors and neither does its big brother XQuery. Bzzzt, try again. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Arjun Ray [mailto:aray@n...] 
	Sent: Fri 5/10/2002 10:43 PM 
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	Subject: Re:  XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
	
	

	In <00c501c1f8aa$8fd5b240$4bc8a8c0@A...>, "Rick Jelliffe"
	<ricko@a...> wrote:
	|  From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
	
	|> This change was made because database systems need to use indexes to
	|> evaluate boolean expressions.
	|
	| Why is it a requirement that XPath2 pander to DBMS-specific functions?
	
	AFAICT, it isn't a requirement.  It's a teleological imperative.  That's
	what "we need data types" has always been about.
	
	
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