Re: [www-ql] <none>

• From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
• Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:14:16 -0500
• To: Jeff Chapman <Jeff.Chapman@pervasive.com>
• cc: www-ql@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200102270314.WAA03962@sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu>

> Specifically, I'm deeply troubled
> that an XQuery expression is not valid XML.  This will immediately cause
> problems when I try to store XQuery documents into an XML repository.  

How about:

<xquery> your xquery query goes here </xquery>

> This should trigger a sense of Deja Vu.  Aren't we ignoring a painful
> lesson from our immediate past.  When people realized the gravity of the
> situation caused by DTDs not being valid XML, the W3C immediately began
> work on a solution--XML Schemas.

DTD being not a valid XML is not the problem that XML Schema is trying to
address. 


	--michael  

Received on Monday, 26 February 2001 22:14:55 UTC