Re: [XQuery] MS-XQ-LC1-075

I strongly agree with Dana here.

Jonathan

Daniela Florescu wrote:

>
> This is not really true. Heterogeneous sequences do add
> a lot of user value. To give you a quick example from our daily lives:
> building the content of a mixed element fragment by fragment requires
>  temporary heterogeneous sequences.
>
> Such a limitation would make our data model much weaker,
> without a serious justification.
> ( I see the reason of inefficiencies in certain implementations,
> but there is nothing inherently inefficient in the concept.)
>
> Best regards,
> Dana
>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:10 AM, Michael Rys wrote:
>
>>
>> Section 3.3.1 Constructing Sequences   
>> Technical   
>>
>> We should not allow heterogeneous sequences of nodes and atomic values.
>> This adds lots of complexity and inefficiency with very little user
>> value.
>>
>

Received on Monday, 16 February 2004 22:53:00 UTC