- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:55:53 +0100
- To: "Liam Quin" <liam@w3.org>, "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
> Speaking for myself here, and not the WG... > > Note that it's not generally enough to escape a query in a > URI; you'll need to decide whether to use CGI-style encoding, > and if so, what the variables should be called, and how to > name a script that interfaces to a query... > And how to supply the values of external variables used by the query, and how the base URI of the query is related to the URI in which it is embedded, etc, etc. The Query WG has set out to define a language, and not an API or protocol for transmitting that language between clients and servers. I think that embedding XQuery in a URI is one example of such a protocol, and goes beyond the WG's charter. Michael Kay
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