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Re: Who'e expecting to use XQuery? (was Re: Yet anot

• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: Who'e expecting to use XQuery? (was Re: Yet another plea for update)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:57:27 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: Message from Mike Champion <mc@x...> of "Fri, 03 May 2002 08:48:30 EDT." <86YXVP31TS841Z9841OZW2XUPIC1YX.3cd2871e@MChamp>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> 5/2/2002 11:44:28 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...> 
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > No offence whatsoever to you or the XML Query group, 
> > but I don't expect > to be using XQuery very much, so XQuery
> > integration is the least of my concerns for an XML update
> > language.
> 
> Why don't you expect to be using XQuery much?  Because of some 
> limitation of the XQuery language?  Because you already have the 
> tools you need in XPath, SAX/DOM, and/or XSLT?  Because of the 
> impedence mismatch between Yet Another Progrqamming Language and the 
> one you already use? 

I am a very poor sample member for any survey (probably on any topic), but I don't expect to use XQuery much because of its complexity and its fixation with strong typing (same reasons I don't expect to be using XSDL much).  Yes, XPath does much of what I need, but actually I have another weapon for large-scale query.

I use 4Suite as XML repository.  On insert/modify/delete, I reflect significant "fields" into XML's RDF DBMS.  4Suite makes it pretty easy to automate and manage this process.  Usually, in this way I can take care of all things likely to be addressed in structured form.  Then I just use 4Suite's RDF query capability for such addressing.  I can always fall back to full-text searching for addressing the XML without regard to structure.

I've done this often enough in practice to be very comfortable with its utility and reasonably comfortable with its performance.


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Uche Ogbuji                           Fourthought, Inc.
uche.ogbuji@f...           http://fourthought.com
http://4Suite.org                     http://uche.ogbuji.net
Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/
RDF Query using Versa - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think10/index.html
WSDL and the Wild, Wild West - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6004
XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel

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