- From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:39:10 -0800
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> Personally, I don't understand why we can't have a standard
>> representation that wraps a query with XML but allows:
>>
>> * the "normal" query syntax (i.e. no expansion into
>> xml)
>> * literal elements just as literal elements!
>
> Could you give us an example of what you have in mind here?
This is just the trivial embedding where there is a root element
that isn't returned as part of the query.
e.g.
<query>
{ /foo/bar }
</query>
That way you can use the 'query' element to control aspects
of the query:
<query maximum="10" start="20">
{ /foo/bar }
</query>
The big problem is that you can't "declare" things after the
document element has been specified. As such, you need a
wrapper element that isn't part of the actual xquery.
--Alex Milowski
Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:43:05 UTC