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RE: defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc

• To: "'Jim Melton'" <jim.melton@a...>,"'Rakshan Murthy'" <rakshanm@h...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:07:00 +0100
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> >XQuery update extensions are on the way, but not there yet. 
> And it's not an
> >XML format, unfortunately.
> 
> Not to worry.  One of the requirements of the XQuery Update 
> Facility is 
> that it share the XML syntax that XQuery itself provides (called 
> XQueryX).  

I did think of mentioning XQueryX. But I suspect the reason that they want
an XML format is that they want, for example, to be able to logically merge
two "diff" files, and I would think that would be mightily difficult to do
if the format is XQueryX.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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