- From: Vadim Draluk <vadim@draluk.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:04:03 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-ql@w3.org
Vassilis, there'd be nothing wrong with giving service's URL as a parameter to the document() function if this URL were just an Internet address. However, in reality it has to contain the entire input document. It makes the syntax extremely ugly (to my taste). Worse, it does not allow to produce such a document dynamically within the XQuery itself. Cheers Vadim --- Vassilis Papadimos <vpapad@cse.ogi.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:16:57PM -0800, Vadim > Draluk wrote: > > The apparent difficulty is in the difference > between > > documents and Web services, the latter being > functions > > mapping one set of documents into another. There's > no > > way I can see in XQuery to explicitly specify > input > > documents (hope no one would suggest putting them > into > > the URL parameter of the document() function). > > I'm probably just being naive here, but why is it > not OK to give the > service URL as a parameter to document? What > prevents document() > from working with 'virtual' documents? > > In database terms, a 'service' is just a view, > what's wrong with > querying that view, even if it's not materialized? > > Best regards, > > Vassilis Papadimos. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
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