RE: rescue; error recovery facilities needed

At 10:56 AM 6/23/2003, Kay, Michael wrote:
>
> > As usual, I'll quote the typing as the most gross error.
> > Apparently needed in query, certainly not in XSLT.
>
>I think the data typing is needed when handling structured data
>applications, and is not needed (much) when handling narrative text.
>
>Many people seem to be under the impression that XQuery is designed to
>handle data and XSLT is designed to handle text. This is not the case. Both
>languages have explicit requirements to handle the full spectrum of XML
>applications.

I completely agree.

Jonathan 

Received on Monday, 23 June 2003 12:03:45 UTC