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RE: What niche is XQuery targeting?

• To: "'Tom Bradford'" <tbradford@o...>
• Subject: RE: What niche is XQuery targeting?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:21:25 -0000
• Cc: "'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>,"'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'Daniela Florescu'" <dflorescu@m...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> The XQuery implementation that I participated in was meant for 
> transforming messages in an orchestration engine.  Seems to 
> me that that 
> is probably the best niche for XQuery overall, but time will tell.

Well, you can use XQuery in that role, and some people will, but in my view
XSLT does that job far better, and is already so well entrenched in that
space that it will be difficult to dislodge.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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