[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] 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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