- From: Ingo Macherius <macherius@darmstadt.gmd.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:54:32 +0200
- To: "Jonathan Robie" <Jonathan.Robie@softwareag-usa.com>, "Libby Miller" <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>, "Gary Zakon" <gzakon@rcn.com>
- Cc: "www-ql" <www-ql@w3.org>, <christop@ics.forth.gr>
> And in fact, that's almost what I'm doing with XQuery - I am currently > using an XQuery library that translates to a syntactic representation of > the triples in XML, then I query the triples. What exactly is the benefit of XML syntax if you convert your data into 3-tuples, aka triples ? Is maybe XQuery's expressiveness, even over this most simple schema, worth the effort? What would be the drawbacks of the (rather simple) relational representation ? Just curious, Ingo Macherius
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