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Re: The use of XML syntax in XML Query

• To: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...>, "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
• Subject: Re: The use of XML syntax in XML Query
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@s...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:18:44 -0500
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At 03:25 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, Jonathan Borden wrote:
>One can always introduce a new/XML syntax, I would favor:
>
>3) updating XSLT including XPath 2.0 as the XML syntax 'version' of XQuery,
>that is to say any features of XQuery not included in XPath 2.0 should be
>included in XSLT 2.0 (well it already has element constructors etc). Is this
>feasable?

Possibly. But some of this is hard. XSLT tends to construct things top 
down, and XQuery constructs things bottom up, for reasons that make perfect 
sense in each language, which means the element constructors are different. 
Updates don't work well in XSLT since it clearly separates the input tree 
from the output tree.

Still, I like the general direction of what you suggest.

Jonathan

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