- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:22:15 -0500
- To: "Ingo Macherius" <macherius@darmstadt.gmd.de>
- cc: www-ql@w3.org
Ingo Macherius <macherius@darmstadt.gmd.de> wrote: > > If XQuery was XML itself, more structured construction becomes feasible, > e.g. by using the DOM API or XSLT. When it comes to query construction, XML-ized syntax is a hindrance. I can see some benefit in having it XML-ized if I want to catch a query that somebody else wrote (or to use a query template) and change it on the fly. Then, perhaps, DOM, XSLT, or XQuery itself (!) might be useful. However, one shouldn't confuse the rather trivial issue of producing an alternative XML-style syntax and the more basic problem of fitting the different components of the language into a coherent framework. My impression is that the current document deals with the second problem. --michael
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