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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Robert Koberg <rob@k...> wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Christoph LANGE wrote: > >> On Tuesday 02 December 2008 12:52:15 James Fuller wrote: >>> >>> u might want to take another look at xquery ... I have found that >>> most of the functional idioms are doable with extensions (1st class >>> funcs) and XQuery lends itself readily to working with XML... u may >>> even find you can port your code through time by directly using your >>> existing xslt transforms from within XQuery as you figure out >>> refactoring them. >> >> Thanks, sounds interesting! Now that I only have basic knowledge about >> XQuery, could you tell me >> >> * how to use XSL transformations from within XQuery > > very clumsily if you are using an XML DB, losing the advantage that you gain > by the XML DB w/o functional idioms then yes I agree, but once funcs are first class then all that awkwardness goes away. please expand ? >> * where to find such functional extensions >> ? > > You *get* to make/maintain different XQuery templates for each processor you > want to try out/use. I agree that we need the equiv of EXSLT for XQuery quick ... functional sigs are all different everywhere and all this is just vendor lockin in a new disguise. > XQuery - the thinking man's PHP (but without PHP's standardization) hehe, I never knew that php had standardisation (I assume u being ironic??) and dont get me started on the probs associated with php (all funcs in the same namespace is a start ...) ... as for xquery it was never intended to be used as a replacement for php ... its an answer to sql The relational data model is based on set theory and predicate logic. Data is represented as n-ary relations and the use of relational algebra is applicable. XQuery addresses the need of the xml data model. that being said XQuery is a useful language in its own right, just as much as XSLT is. Jim Fuller > -Rob > >> >> >> Then, I'm not so sure whether XQuery is the right solution for my problem, >> as >> the processing order in which I do most of my XML->RDF extraction is a >> depth-first recursive traversal of the input tree, i.e. what XSLT gives me >> for >> free. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Christoph >> >> -- >> Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype >> duke4701 >> > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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