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Re: Re: [xquery-talk] JDBC in an XQuery world (?)

• From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
• To: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
• Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:42:46 -0400

Liam R E Quin scripsit:

> > What if I have (or want) an XQuery database
> > (or would you call that a XML database with an XQuery interface ...?) 
> 
> SQL/XML I think describes enough of a mapping, no?

I don't think so.  SQL/XML extends SQL to add XML as a new kind of primitive
SQL data type, like strings, numbers, and dates.  What's needed here is a
way to do ordinary SQL operations over an XDM-based database.

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