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RE: [ANN] Ipedo XML Database 3.1 Now Available

• To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>,"'Chris Parkerson'" <cparkerson@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: [ANN] Ipedo XML Database 3.1 Now Available
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:11:24 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E06621E23@r...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

Go easy, Dare, the poor guy's from Product Marketing.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] 
> Sent: 23 July 2002 00:16
> To: Chris Parkerson; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  [ANN] Ipedo XML Database 3.1 Now Available
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Parkerson [mailto:cparkerson@i...]
> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:03 PM
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject:  [ANN] Ipedo XML Database 3.1 Now Available
> > 
> > 
> > Ipedo has released a new vision of it's award-winning XML
> > product suite. This new version includes an updated version 
> > of the Ipedo XML Database, PC Magazine's Editor's Choice 
> > <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,63211,00.asp> for Best 
> > XML Database, and Ipedo Web Express, a toolkit that 
> > accelerates development of XML-based J2EE web applications. 
> > Other new features in the 3.1 release include:
> > - Update support via XQuery - extensions to Ipedo's XQuery 
> > interface to support granular XML updates, in-line with the 
> > current update syntax proposals before the W3C
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1.) What update syntax proposals before the W3C? 
> 
> 2.) According to your website's[0] "Features At A Glance" 
> section your product has 
> 
>    * Support for the latest XML standards including XML 
> Schema, XQuery and XSLT
> 
> Given that the current XQuery working draft[1] states 
> 
> "XQuery is a strongly typed language. Rules for assigning 
> types to XQuery expressions are described in [XQuery 1.0 
> Formal Semantics]. A query may import type definitions from a 
> Schema, according to rules that will be specified in a future 
> edition of [XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics]."
> 
> 
> I am curious as to how you guys support XQuery since the type 
> system, schema importation and the entire formal semantics is 
> pretty much still in a state of flux with significant 
> questions still to be answered. Does Ipedo implement the 
> XQuery type system? If so which W3C document does it conform 
> to and if not isn't that the whole point of XQuery? 
> 
> I guess I could just download the trial version (if there are no legal
> issues) but its always good to talk to XQuery implementers 
> since I don't think I've read or heard any opinions/comments 
> about it from anyone that doesn't work for MS. 
> 
> 
> [0] http://www.ipedo.com/html/products_xml_dat.html
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-20020430
> 
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