[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XQuery & XSLT was RE: Verboseness - XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0(XQuery
I have not been looking too much into the XQuery drafts for a few months now -- but I think the following are true to the best of my knowledge -- a) semantics is more important than syntax, but probably they are also linked together -- i think we need to think more about the semantics -- do we need duplicate nodes returned from a path expression in XQuery?? -- this has been my *biggest* concern for almost a year now... b) The data model appears still quite incomplete to me -- do you want to use IDREFS to represent ordered list of elements?? -- is document order the only order in which you want to use??? for example, consider types -- Book, Person, with an IDREFS attribute for Books referring to Person representing the list of Authors in one xml document -- so is there a way of getting the list of Authors as such without using some additional attribute for representing order (as we have to do in the relational model)?? -- I think use of IDREFS for representing ordered binary relationships without attributes might be useful...??? c) About syntax -- I look at XQueryX examples being sent in mails in xml-dev (or) xml-query... I see keywords like SLASHSLASH -- hmm, i think such keywords eliminate humans totally out of the loop from XQueryX ..??? I think there might be humans who like to take short-cuts, and take an XQueryX query directly and try to modify it -- they might take the trouble to learn XQueryX keywords, rather than use the tool for the conversion -- others getting involved in the project might feel totally out of place if the previous person was using such short-cuts..??? <warning>speaking for himself only</warning> regards - murali.
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