RE: [XQueryX] reuse MathML Content Markup to represent XQuery in XQueryX

There is a difference of abstraction here that you seem to be confusing.

MathML is a vocabulary defined using XML to represent mathematical concepts in XML markup documents. XQuery is a language to query your vocabularies that are defined using XML. XQueryX is an XML representation of that language.

If you think that MathML can be used since it provides the same semantics for the mathematical operations and can be used in the context of an XQuery expression tree, feel free to write a proposal (or at least some detailed examples).

Also please note:
RDF is a semantic EER model that represents graph structures. It has an XML serialization, that is not very well suited for writing queries that operate on the semantic abstraction level of RDF. Thus, they decided to define their own query language (whether that was good or bad, I don't comment on).

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang [mailto:franktang@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:35 PM
> To: Michael Rys
> Cc: www-math@w3.org; public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [XQueryX] reuse MathML Content Markup to represent XQuery in
> XQueryX
> 
> I guess similar arguement make the RDF WG to create
> SPARQL Query Language for RDF
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050217/

> 
> instead of extending XQuery to add facility for RDF....
> 
> Maybe MathML WG should create a MathMLQL to query MathML instead ....
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:51:26 -0800, Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > The following is a personal response:
> >
> > Note that the XQueryX syntax is supposed to represent XQuery both on the
> syntactic and semantic level. I am not sure that we should or can another
> markup language and reinterpret it in a different context.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Michael
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-
> > > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Frank Yung-Fong Tang
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:41 PM
> > > To: www-math@w3.org; public-qt-comments@w3.org
> > > Subject: [XQueryX] reuse MathML Content Markup to represent XQuery in
> > > XQueryX
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. Have anyone consider or try to spec out a XQueryX proposal that use
> > > the MathML Content Markup as spec out in
> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/chapter4.html to express XQuery into XML
> > > syntax ? It looks like the MathML content markup should be powerful to
> > > express most of the XQuery syntax, even the XPath part.
> > >
> > > It will be very nice if W3 XQuery Working Group can base the existing
> > > MathML W3C recommendation to develop the XQueryX sytax instead of
> > > create yet one another sytax to encode query expression that most of
> > > them can be done by existing standard.
> > >
> > > 2. Any one have experience of using XQuery with MathML content markup?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Frank Yung-Fong Tang
> > > 譚永鋒
> > > Šýšţém Årçĥîţéçţ
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Frank Yung-Fong Tang
> 譚永鋒
> Šýšţém Årçĥîţéçţ

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