Serialization of XDM

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

but nice idea "keep it XML"
http://kixml.blogspot.com/2009/09/serving-xml_04.html
it can help to combine XQuery&XSLT into one engine

for example how eXist and Saxon perform exchange? xml as string?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Michael Kay <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
>>
>> > is it important that
>> >     $a[1]/foo/bar  is  $a[2]
>>
>
> Someone needs to sit down and write down the requirements and use cases.
>
> One requirement that someone suggested was of the nature of "lossless
> round-tripping". That would imply that given a sequence (N, M), not only
> does (N is M) retain its value after serialization and parsing, but so does
> (N/.. is M/..): which means you can't just serialize the subtrees rooted at
> the nodes in the sequence, you have to serialize the entire document in
> which these nodes are contained.
>
> Perhaps this explains why there is currently no standard in this area.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
>
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