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• To: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
• Subject: Re: Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
• From: Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:25:58 -0700
• Cc: Karl Waclawek <karl@w...>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 18:31 -0800, Daniela Florescu wrote:
> >  I was quite surprised
> > to lean that some of my queries were significantly
> > easier to understand and write using xBase (index based
> > iterators, linked with other iterstors if necessary)
> > than using SQL.
> 
> !? Com' on Karl.
> 
> If you add/remove an index you have to rewrite your xBase
> application. If the volume of data or the frequency of queries
> changes you gave to rewrite your application. Etc. Etc. Etc.
> 
> Do I have to say anything more !?
> 
> We are 30 years after Ted Codd, and many, many billions dollars
> market later. I find it really strange that I need to argue in favor of 
> the
>   declarativity in 2004, almost 2005.

Declarativity is motherhood and apple pie.  neither SQL nor XQuery are
exclusive ways to achieve it.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html
Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html
Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286
UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html
Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html
Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html
A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/
The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html

• References:
  • ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
  • Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
  • More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0)
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
  • Re: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XMLToolkit 0.9.0)
    • From: Jeff Rafter <lists@j...>
  • Re: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0)
    • From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>
  • Re: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XMLToolkit 0.9.0)
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
  • Re: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0)
    • From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>
  • Re: Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
  • Re: Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (wasRe: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
    • From: Karl Waclawek <karl@w...>
  • Re: Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
  • Re: Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (wasRe: ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))
    • From: Karl Waclawek <karl@w...>
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