- From: Daniela Florescu <danielaf@bea.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:39:40 -0800
- To: Stephen Buxton <Stephen.Buxton@oracle.com>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Stephen, I hope you realize that what you ask by this requirement means redesigning 80% of the Data Model, XQuery, Formal Semantics, Xpath, XSLT, and Function and Operators. (and probably XML Schema, because they would need to be able to talk about such a nested sequence..) My company would like to see XQuery 1.0 shipped (it's been already 5 years...) Moreover, my constituency wouldn't like this change even if we would have 10 more years to think about it. XQuery and all the related standards are complex enough and such a change would bring it beyond what can be understood by a human being. Best regards, Dana On Feb 20, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Stephen Buxton wrote: > > SECTION 2: Basics > > The language should allow for nested sequences. Nested sequences > (a.k.a sequences of sequences) will help in returning a set of related > values easily. The current mechanism requires one to put those values > inside an XML element which removes node identities, typing etc. > > Allowing nested sequence in later versions might be quite hard > because of implicit rules governing atomization, normalization and > concatenation of sequences. > > - Steve B. >
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