- From: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:45:00 -0500
- To: www-xml-query-comments@w3.org
Peter Wilson wrote: >The world has enough parsers. XML is about banishing the proliferation >of private syntaxes. There *will* be a published representation of XQuery that is expressed in XML. It is not yet finished. You can use this if you don't want an XQuery parser in your system. There will probably also be parsers that create this representation from an XQuery query. >Please get rid of your private query syntax and put the XML query >formulation into XML syntax - use name spaces. A keyword-based approach is much easier for users to read and write. I've never seen an XML representation of SQL, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, or any other commonly used query or programming language that was as easy to read and write as the original language. If you want to convince me that we should throw away the XQuery syntax, start by designing an XML syntax and presenting the solutions to our Use Cases document in that syntax. For what it's worth, I've done that twice and thrown away the results. Jonathan
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