Re: Proposal for a new XML Query Use Case

Hi Miro,

We will discuss this proposal at our next meeting and will get back to
you in the next weeks. Please, see my response to your email to
member-query-fttf@w3.org

Regards,
Sihem

>Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:37:29 +0200 (EET)
>From: Miro Lehtonen <mplehton@cs.Helsinki.FI>
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>This use case is a simple transformation of an XML structure. It is
>useful when the document type shows a wide variation in structure. It
>would go nicely under 1.2. in
> 
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-use-cases-20031112/
> 
>The expected result is based on the sample data in 1.2.3.
> 
>Query:
> 
>Return the book without image elements. Preserve everything else of the 
>book element.
> 
>Expected result:
> 
><book>
>  <title>Data on the Web</title>
>  <author>Serge Abiteboul</author>
>  <author>Peter Buneman</author>
>  <author>Dan Suciu</author>
>  <section id="intro" difficulty="easy" >
>    <title>Introduction</title>
>    <p>Text ... </p>
>    <section>
>      <title>Audience</title>
>      <p>Text ... </p>
>    </section>
>    <section>
>      <title>Web Data and the Two Cultures</title>
>      <p>Text ... </p>
>      <figure height="400" width="400">
>        <title>Traditional client/server architecture</title>
><!-- Image omitted -->
>      </figure>
>      <p>Text ... </p>
>    </section>
>  </section>
>  <section id="syntax" difficulty="medium" >
>    <title>A Syntax For Data</title>
>    <p>Text ... </p>
>    <figure height="200" width="500">
>      <title>Graph representations of structures</title>
><!-- Image omitted -->
>    </figure>
>    <p>Text ... </p>
>    <section>
>      <title>Base Types</title>
>      <p>Text ... </p>
>    </section>
>    <section>
>      <title>Representing Relational Databases</title>
>      <p>Text ... </p>
>      <figure height="250" width="400">
>        <title>Examples of Relations</title>
><!-- Image omitted -->
>      </figure>
>    </section>
>    <section>
>      <title>Representing Object Databases</title>
>      <p>Text ... </p>
>    </section>       
>  </section>
></book>
> 
>I actually replaced the image elements with a comment which could
>contain something else, as well, e.g. the alternative text of the 
>image or the name of the source file. 
> 
>Presumably, there is a solution for this use case. See 3.4.11 in
> 
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-requirements-20031112 
> 
>Regards,
> 
>Miro Lehtonen
>Department of Computer Science
>University of Helsinki
>
>P.S. The e-mail address for public comments should be fixed:
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