- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:03:02 +0100
- To: "'Liam Quin'" <liam@w3.org>, "'Michael Rys'" <mrys@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'Philip Wadler'" <wadler@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "'Tolkin, Steve'" <Steve.Tolkin@FMR.COM>, <www-ql@w3.org>
I don't think it's helpful to characterize the syntax by comparison with another language when there is no semantic analogy. As a high-level description I would say "a language that is stylistically similar to SQL, and that incorporates and extends XPath". Michael Kay > -----Original Message----- > From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Liam Quin > Sent: 11 April 2005 18:12 > To: Michael Rys > Cc: Philip Wadler; Tolkin, Steve; www-ql@w3.org > Subject: Re: new drafts published > > > At least I know people read the announcements now! > > Thanks for the feedback (Michael, Mike, Steve, Phil...). > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:34:47AM -0700, Michael Rys wrote: > > I find the last two announcements (programming language and > PERL-like) > > to be more contra-productive to the adoption and acceptance > of XQuery. > > After noting that Perl seems by far the closest of the widely-used > languages in syntax to XQuery, I'm happy to take alternate > suggestions. > Send them to me privately, or copy the chairs. Remember also that it > related to the joint and separate work of two Working Groups. > > Best, > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ > >
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