RE: [www-ql] <none>

The only other simplification (that Michael already mentioned in this
thread and which was mentioned in some other threads) that I am
currently are aware of is that you can use the XML Query language (in
either form) to query collection of queries, transform queries and
generate new queries. This provides some nice properties for building
query tools but requires that even the XPath part will be represented as
an XML tree...

Best regards
Michael (speaking for myself)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vasilis Vassalos [mailto:vasilis@enosysmarkets.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:09 PM
> To: www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [www-ql] <none>
> 
> 
> This point has been made time and again.
> 
> > Specifically I'm more concerned about investing a lot of 
> effort to build a
> > SQL-like syntax that is easily consumed by humans at the 
> expense of one
> that
> > is easily consumed by automated processes.
> 
> How exactly does XML syntax simplify consumption of XQueries 
> by automated
> processes (apart from the tokenization that Prof. Kifer mentioned)?
> 
> (Someone on this thread even mentioned that the XML syntax will
> simplify query execution! )
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vasilis Vassalos
> Enosys Markets, Inc.
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 28 February 2001 21:37:58 UTC