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Ihe, > You overcome their objections by pointing out something suckier that > they already do or were prepared to do. This is again easier to do if > you are not dealing with an IT person as you are less likely to get > drawn into a holy war and you can get away with what would otherwise > be heretical. > > Address performance objections by saying that your X-Fu system doesn't > need to be on the critical path - it can be used to create > extracts/feeds for the systems that do. > > If they want to use JSON - "So you'll be wanting schemas and a > standardized query language then won't you". > > Evangelize the idea of just-in-time data formats for some systems. > Don't commit to a data format until the information is needed then > transform it into it's required form. Yes it will be less performant > but you will achieve better systems integration/interoperability and > won't ever have to reverse engineer a lossy data translation due to an > up-front committment to a one-way data format. Sounds good so far. It does mean asking people to shed a security blanket or two. > Finally work on XUpdate or whatever it is that is going to perform > that role so that it is as natural, obvious, familiar and standardized > as SQL Update. I have used XQuery Update in a super lightweight way -- in Saxon, as I believe, in oXygen - and it works today. Unless I mistake you. I believe you have already observed how well XSLT works inside an XQuery database. Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^
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