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noah, nuic> SQL is great for querying and updating it. ... nuic> policy documents are encoded as some kind of smart template, nuic> so that a join in a language like XQuery can automatically create the nuic> policy documents tailored for each customer. Join of language like SQL can create tailored documents too via Web Service, e.g. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226553(SQL.80).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226534(SQL.80).aspx So there is no advantages of XQuery (let's make comparison characteristic during all time, instead to agitate for only one technology). nuic> SQL and relational are cleaner (not to say nuic> having decades of deployment and training investment) You are saying, that SQL is cleaner than XQuery, relational is cleaner than xml's specifications, but no XML/XQuery require more time and investment, but SQL requires ?? nuic> firms store lists of customers in nuic> relational (probably), but the contracts, legal decisions, etc. are all nuic> documents. If documents have regularized form (i.e. satisfied to some template), then they can be easy entered into rational engine (and even automatically: slides #7-9 in http://sql50.euro.ru/sql5.11.1.ppt ). If documents have not regularazed form, you will write separate XQuery-request for each separate document ?? So non advantage to store document in XML. SQL with my proposal can also read xml-documents from local filesystem and remote Web-servers (slides #119). So non advantages of XQuery. --- nuic> The point is that what makes XML so valuable is not just that it can do nuic> documents, but that it can do these combined document/data applications. Necessity to combine code and data into one script (like in Perl) does not exist, right ? nuic> It's the nuic> combination of data and documents in a uniform model that's powerful. I have read attentively your description of request, have imagined it both in XQuery and SQL form, and have found, that both of forms are equally powerfull [or not powerfull, depending of point of view :) ]. Dmitry Turin HTML6 (6. 5.3) http://html60.euro.ru SQL5 (5.11.1) http://sql50.euro.ru Unicode7 (7. 2.1) http://unicode70.euro.ru Computer2 (2. 0.2) http://computer20.euro.ru
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