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RE: XML-aware programming language?

• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: RE: XML-aware programming language?
• From: sterling <sstouden@t...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:39:48 -0600 (CST)
• Cc: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>, "'Daniela Florescu'" <dflorescu@m...>, "'Michael Champion'" <michaelc.champion@g...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <E1CZn6F-0000ij-00@u...>

This thread suggests a really big demand for one single
language (maybe layered into levels suitable to different
types of applications.)
Such a language would need to provide for all 
syntax and grammar necessary to apply all known logic 
to all types of processing at all levels of the 
programming to application interface. 

Would it be productive to detail the deficiencies of all 
languages in comparative format. They try to use that list
to create the requirements for a standard language?  I know, 
this would be a great big project, but it would make the 
net and and everything connected with it more accessible 
to more people.  


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Michael Kay wrote:

> > From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] 
> > 
> > Exactly, that's why as a programmer I'd rather stick with the 
> > language I'm doing most of the application development with 
> > anyway (i.e. C#, Javascript, etc) as opposed to dealing with 
> > the [familiar] complexity of that language plus all the 
> > idiosyncracies of XQuery & XML Schema as well. 
> >  
> 
> And this is also why many of my users would rather stick with the language
> they are doing most of the application development with (i.e. XSLT) and
> regard the prospect of writing in [unfamiliar] low-level languages like Java
> with horror.
> 
> (Dammit, they are even trying to access their relational databases directly
> from XSLT, using a library I wrote one afternoon as a demo...)
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> 
> 
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