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Re: Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225)

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• Subject: Re: Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225)
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:43:49 +0100
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Bob Foster wrote:

> The main advantage of your proposal, OOP orthodoxy aside, seems to be in 
> preventing syntactically incorrect queries. 

No. Syntactic correctness isn't what's valuable, nor is OOP 
conformance. What is valuable is the ability to construct and 
mnaipulate queries dynamically in the target programming language - 
XQuery reflection.


>  On the con side, 
> building up expressions using individual For, Where, etc. classes is 
> certainly going to be clumsier.

Not in my experience. Having access to a syntax tree can be quite 
useful.

cheers
Bill

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