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On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: > At least one IR person criticized XQL for doing too much, eg for > having the parent/child relationship in addition to the > ancestor/descendant relationship. This does, in fact, increase the > complexity of implementation, but offers a distinction that I find > important. This is particularly so given the broadening of XML's focus from documents to documents and data. > The number of implementations of XQL shows that there's a fair > amount of interest in it. People who have demonstrated it at trade > shows send me email telling me how impressed people are - for > instance, I have been getting email from Software AG, which is > showing XQL at CeBIT this week and getting very enthusiastic > responses. When I discuss XQL at trade shows, I get enthusiastic > responses. So the fact that there are also critics doesn't bother > me. I could be disingenuous ( :-) ) and suggest that the attachment to Microsoft has more than a little to do with its success to date, but I certainly don't want to disparage the effort in its own right. It offers a good compromise between expressivity and simplicity, which is a far more practicable goal than completeness. I am concerned (am I right on this?) at the lack of proximity operators. But that's just an implementor's perspective, looking at doing things we already support. Cheers, Marcelo -- http://www.simdb.com/~marcelo/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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