Re: [xml-dev] The use of XML syntax in XML Query from Jonathan Borden on 2002-01-03 (www-xml-query-comments@w3.org from January 2002)

From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:58:07 -0500
To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, <www-xml-query-comments@w3.org>, <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>, "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com>
Message-ID: <009201c194a1$baacd920$0a2e249b@nemc.org>

Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
> That said, if our various communities would say loudly to us that we
should
> drop the XML syntax, I would not have particularly strong objections to
that.

FWIW, when I first saw the psuedo-XML syntax I had a negative reaction but
over time I've come to sort of like it. It looks like when a scripting
language is used to directly construct XML to be returned from a web server
etc. The problem with doing that was that it was easy to create
non-wellformed 'XML', but XQuery would not have that problem.

Jonathan

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