Yaron Goland on WebDAV SEARCH vs XPath/XQuery

See...: <http://www.goland.org/Tech/dasl.html>

My comments:

Interesting.

Some thoughts:

- this is not new -- actually I've been playing around with an XPath 
query grammar back in 2001, and the Slide/Tamino crew already has that 
running against their XML database (see for instance grammar proposal 
here: 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webdav-dasl/2003OctDec/0018.html>)

- every time we discuss this, the consensus seems that this is an 
interesting approach, but we'll still need DAV:basicsearch, because it's 
extremely unlikely that everybody will be able to implement even an 
Xpath-1-based grammar.



Best regards, Julian


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Received on Monday, 26 April 2004 03:31:58 UTC