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• Subject: Re: Adam Bosworth Article - what does "direct access" mean?
• From: "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:31:56 -0500
• Organization: Fiduciary Automation
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Joshua Allen wrote:

> The point I took away was that languages like XPath are suited for
> handling XML, while languages like Java are not.  Therefore, as
> programmers find themselves more frequently manipulating XML, they need
> to either use XPath/XQuery/XSLT or else get better support in their
> language of choice.

An entirely sensible conclusion, if your premise is that XML is the stuff
well-suited to handling by XPath. That is certainly Bosworth's premise, so
it is no surprise that it is his conclusion. As I've said, argument by
petitio principii.

Respectfully,

Walter Perry

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