AW: size of XQuery developer community

[Hans-Juergen Rennau]

Yes, of course there are domains where XML cannot be afforded due to performance and data volume issues. I suggest that we take this for granted, I assure you there is no "one-size-fits-all" ambition - let us now consider the domains where those issues do not play a primary role.

Your hints interest me very much: you speak of other, more concise and platform-independent formats. So they may be regarded as siblings of XML as a serialization format - siblings of level #1 XML, so to speak. Please tell me - are they also embedded into an information model which might be compared with level #3 XML - the XDM - supporting hierarchy, order and processing? An information model that does, or in principle could, support a pure expression language like XQuery?

With kind regards,
Hans-Juergen Rennau





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Von: A. Steven Anderson <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>
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Gesendet: Montag, den 31. August 2009, 15:21:35 Uhr
Betreff: Re:  size of XQuery developer community

With all due respect, one major reason why XML/XQuery/XSLT isn't as popular as many other programming languages has less to do with ignorance of it's capabilities and more to do with it's 1) lack of performance, 2) overall information bloat, and 3) unintuitive language constructs.

Sure disk space is cheap and bandwidth is getting more *broad* every day, and "many elegant designs have been sacrificed for the sake of performance...yada...yada...yada...", but at the end of the day, the same data that can be represented in XML can be represented a lot more concise in other platform-independent formats.  I won't even get into the whole information density argument which can be Googled.

It's been my experience (19+ years of professional software development) that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.  i.e. my tool belt has more than just a hammer. ;-)

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A. Steven Anderson
Independent Consultant


      
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