RE: [AW] XQuery and Item Orientation

[Robert Koberg]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Ghislain Fourny wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think that it is an important point that the relevance of object- 
> orientation features in XQuery depends on the use cases. Everybody  
> (I think) agrees that XQuery is very efficient and well-suited to  
> process XML/relational data:

Depends on what you mean by process and if you meant relational data  
as XML (as opposed to mixed/article-like content).

But, regardless, if you mean to query XML and filter/bring out pieces,  
then yes. If you mean to transform one representation to another, then  
no.

-Rob