On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:29:06PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote: Oops, I didn't copy my reply to the list, sorry.... > > I quote from the announcement below: > > * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language: > A non-XML, Perl-like syntax for querying ... > > "Perl-like syntax"? Uses $ signs to signify variables; uses {...} for scope; has optional type checking system (although much weaker than XQuery's); has lists (sequences) that can contain trees but not sequences; there are actually quite a lot of similarities between XQuery and Perl at the superficial level, although as a user of both languages I know well that there are many differences. XQuery's syntax is not a human-readable XML-based one such as that of XSLT, though. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/Received on Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:42:30 UTC
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