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Thanks, I'd heard rumors about this presentation but hadn't seen it. Really thought provoking ... especially if contrasted with Adam Bosworth's almost diametrically opposite position expressed in http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=337 The way I (perhaps crudely) would characterize the positions are that Adam thinks that XML/RDF is too complex to be useful, so "worse is better" things like HTML for text and RSS for data will become the mainstream technologies that are more derived from XML than really applications of generic XML. Dana agrees that XML is too hard for mainstream developers to process, so we need better tools and some fixes to XML to make it more RDF-like. I find myself more in Dana's camp than Adam's, but believe that XML/XQuery features will be absorbed into programming languages rather than vice versa. I do like her points about making XML more graph-friendly with links as first class citizens, but the implications could get messy .... Her points about declarative processing of XML are particularly interesting, but contrast them with Anders Hjelsberg's discussion of the evolution of mainstream languages to be more declarative in http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/TLN/TLN307_files/Default.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=1 >From: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...> >To: <xml-dev@l...> >Subject: Declarative XML Processing with XQuery >Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:27:44 -0800 > >Dr. Daniela Florescu of the W3C XML Query Working Group suggests a >direction the industry should be taking with XML and XQuery processing: > >http://www.webservicessummit.com/People/DFlorescu.htm#DeclarativeXML > >Dana describes XML as more than a technology for documentation and data >interchange. She suggests we haven't exploited XML to its fullest >potential. She emphasizes the use of declarative programming instead >of processing XML with imperative or procedural techniques. > > >======== Ken North =========== >www.WebServicesSummit.com >www.SQLSummit.com >www.GridSummit.com > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an >initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > >The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription >manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
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