RE: [XQueryX] reuse MathML Content Markup to represent XQuery in XQueryX

The following is a personal response:

Note that the XQueryX syntax is supposed to represent XQuery both on the syntactic and semantic level. I am not sure that we should or can another markup language and reinterpret it in a different context.

Best regards
Michael

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> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Frank Yung-Fong Tang
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:41 PM
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> Subject: [XQueryX] reuse MathML Content Markup to represent XQuery in
> XQueryX
> 
> 
> 1. Have anyone consider or try to spec out a XQueryX proposal that use
> the MathML Content Markup as spec out in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/chapter4.html to express XQuery into XML
> syntax ? It looks like the MathML content markup should be powerful to
> express most of the XQuery syntax, even the XPath part.
> 
> It will be very nice if W3 XQuery Working Group can base the existing
> MathML W3C recommendation to develop the XQueryX sytax instead of
> create yet one another sytax to encode query expression that most of
> them can be done by existing standard.
> 
> 2. Any one have experience of using XQuery with MathML content markup?
> 
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> Frank Yung-Fong Tang
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