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Re: What niche is XQuery targeting?

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• Subject: Re: What niche is XQuery targeting?
• From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
• Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:30:20 -0800
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Elliotte,

Sorry for the very late answer to your question.


> Universities are teaching it? That's a bit of a surprise. Which ones? 
> I'd be curious to now more about this.
>
>


I am not following this closely. But I know the following universities 
did (and I hope
still do) teach XQuery in a form or another: Stanford, Berkeley, 
Wisconsin, UPenn, Cornell,
U.Washington, UC San Diego,  U. Michigan, and I am sure I missed most 
of them.

But you need to understand that XQuery was *born* in the database 
research community, and that a certain
part of that community is very keen on XQuery (while some other part 
doesn't like it :-). In general, I think
most database  classes today end up with a couple of courses on XML and 
XQuery.

XQuery (extensions, processing, etc) is also a very popular research 
topic in the database
community, as the flourishing number of workshops that address those 
issues attests

(see for example  a couple of them:
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/gemo/Gemo/Projects/XIME-P/
http://www.xsym.org/
http://webdb2004.cs.columbia.edu/
http://edbtss04.dia.uniroma3.it/
http://www.research.att.com/conf/planx2005/)

as well the mainstream database conferences (Sigmod, VLDB and ICDE).  
(I think I reviewed in the last couple of
years more XQuery papers that a person can see without getting an 
allergy  :-)

Of course, this doesn't guarantee success, but it guarantees that we 
will make "some" progress in
understanding XML information processing.

>
> 3. The XQuery books that have been published have not done well in the 
> market, and you'd be hard pressed to get a publisher to commit to a 
> new one at this time.

There are too many books that give details. I don't know of any good 
book that gives the big picture.
People will not care about the details of FLWR unless they understand 
how XQuery is supposed to be used and
integrated in the big picture.


Best regards,
Dana

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