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Re: Anyone wanna speculate about what this means?

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• Subject: Re: Anyone wanna speculate about what this means?
• From: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:28:02 +1300
• Cc: "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <000001c2d668$c16b9030$6401a8c0@pcukmka> ("Michael Kay"'smessage of "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:41:32 -0000")
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>>>>> "MK" == Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...> writes:

    MK> XQuery will definitely give benefits, though, when searching
    MK> large indexed databases. I think there are sound technical
    MK> reasons why XQuery is more amenable to that kind of
    MK> optimization than XSLT is: and in any case, I don't see anyone
    MK> trying to produce an XSLT implementation that can handle this
    MK> scenario.

Could you expand a bit on those "sound technical reasons"? I just
finished doing an XPath implementation on top of a database. As I
understood it, XPath expressions form the basis for XQuery as well as
XSLT, so the distinction should be in xSLT specific things, right?

-- 
Regards,

Berend. (-:

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