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Re: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?


Re: RE:  XQuery and DTD/Schema?
At 12:29 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, Thomas B. Passin wrote:

>Exactly, and what you say supports my point here - since xml looked like
>something you could do yourself, people like me who would never consider
>trying to build a major language compiler got very interested.

Yes, I agree with your analysis, and find it insightful.

> > Yes, I agree that this is a good explanation for the fear. Yet, I don't
> > think this fear is well placed. Programming languages and query languages
> > are very helpful, even if they are not easily implemented by the average
> > developer.
>
>I agree, but remember I was addressing perception and emotion, not rational
>explications.  After all, those (supposedly easy) xml parsers have to be
>written in some programming language and make use of a compiler or
>interpreter.

Yes. I hope that XQuery gives these people another useful language for 
solving real problems. And one they probably won't implement themselves...

Jonathan


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