size of XQuery developer community

[Mukul Gandhi]

Hi Martin,
   I agree to many of your points. Kindly see my answers to some
specific points, you have mentioned.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Martin Probst<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> exploiting this benefit leads to the schema evolution problems that
> plague so many SQL users. I'm not sure whether the benefit is actually
> worth the hassle of near-impossible to change schemata

I very much agree to this. Where the schema is volatile, XML is a good
choice, than relational model. With relational model, frequent schema
changes is much harder, than with XML.

> For most document centric applications XML databases would be a huge
> win.

I agree to this, as well.

> And I'm still very sceptical about using XQuery as a
> sole web development language, the approaches I've seen so far have
> not been compelling at all.

As I wrote earlier, people who design relational plus XML combined
data models, have a good choice with hybrid SQL plus XQuery
processing, for manipulating such data. Most of the large DB vendors,
seem to be promoting this design.


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi