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As I sort my way through the XQuery draft, it has a way of looking like an ASP page with all of the <% %> delimiters removed. Ok. I can see the utility of it (alternative to the SQL variants popping up from every vendor), and the overlap with XSLT (transforms in the query). So far so good. I can see the sense of this. The stored procedure guys should love it. MSL: well, ok as long as these are formal proofs among interested parties as to the correctness of parts, no problem. If this enters the production systems, it is not something most will welcome outside the deepgeeks with the faster propellors. So, it will be an academic exercise similar to the early DSSSL with Scheme/LISP. Good to have for formal work; not something the production folks will want to work with unless it is made *very* friendly by tools. Even then... Keep in mind what someone made very clear very passionately in Vancouver when this SGML On The Web thing was a'bornin' and people had to agree to walk away from the advanced state of extant solid work: "It has to be simple." Jean Paoli- Microsoft Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Michael Rys [mailto:mrys@m...] I just want to point out that you do not necessarily need to learn the algebra to do the selection. But as with relational database systems and SQL, it certainly does help if the queries become more complex...
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