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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?
 At 02:16 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote: >>>I don't think that a query processor is as simple to write as an XML >>>parser. That doesn't mean that queries are bad. >> >>You seem utterly unwilling to acknowledge that the style of processing >>you're pushing with XQuery is very very different from the style of >>processing that takes place in parsing XML documents. > >Huh? XML 1.0 reports structured labelled content. There's no notion of type beyond the structures and labels provided. You're pushing a notion of type that in my mind has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with XML and would be better considered as a completely separate technology. That's what I meant by "style of processing". >Regardless, the best way to get a feel for what makes XQuery useful and >attractive may be to download one of the more complete implementations and >play with it. It takes time to grasp a new technology. And then perhaps >the next time around we can discuss XQuery in terms of the language >itself, with sample queries and concrete scenarios. Sorry Jonathan, but at this point I'm not in the mood to play with 700-page specifications that do both more and less than I need. (Yes, I'd like update too.) I'll take another look at XQuery when it clearly presents a subset for work with well-formed XML only, without inflicting typed expectations on that understanding. I'm not willing to waste my time playing in toxic turf controlled by an organization in which I have little faith. Simon St.Laurent "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue 
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