Re: [DM] BEA_006

I accept the resolution because of the first argument.

However, SQL should not be brought as an argument,
unless we accept C++, Java, C#, Cobol, Lisp and all the other
programming languages to come with their own requirements.

Best regards,
Dana


On Feb 25, 2004, at 7:51 AM, Norman Walsh wrote:

> / Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com> was heard to say:
> | There are outside requirements to support XQuery on a document node 
> that
> | may contain more than one element besides XSLT. The SQL-2003 XML
> | Datatype follows that model.
> |
> | Restricting a document node now would not satisfy their requirements
> | either.
>
> In summary:
>
> - XML 1.0 defines external parsed entities which have multiple root 
> elements.
> - XSLT 1.0 backwards compatibility requires them.
> - SQL-2003 requires them.
>
> I believe this represents compelling evidence in favor of keeping the
> existing functionality.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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