- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:43:58 -0400
- To: "'Liam Quin'" <liam@w3.org>
- CC: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, "'Michael Rys'" <mrys@microsoft.com>, "'Philip Wadler'" <wadler@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "'Tolkin, Steve'" <Steve.Tolkin@FMR.COM>, www-ql@w3.org
There are other problems in this description:
>* XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language:
> A non-XML, Perl-like syntax for querying collections of structured
> and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web - Last Call
>
Not only is the Perl deescription problematic, but a language is not
the same thing as a syntax, and XML does not need to be in a
"collection" to be queried - we can query single documents, for
instance.Locally and over the web are not the only two options - I can
use a connection to a database server, for instance. Why not just:
An XML query language.
Jonathan
Received on Monday, 11 April 2005 18:44:23 UTC