XQuery and GET

Greetings,

I believe XQuery is missing an important feature; the ability to
serialize a document in URI form, so that the resulting URI may be used
as an argument to the GET method.

Consider the recent TAG finding regarding the use of HTTP GET;

"Use GET if [...] The interaction is more like a question (i.e., it is
a safe operation such as a query, read operation, or lookup)."
 -- http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html

Being able to perform a query via GET requires that a URI serialization
of the query (i.e. the XQuery document) be provided.  Without this, the
only way that querying can be performed interoperably would be via POST.

Thanks!

Mark.
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Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca

Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:36:28 UTC