- From: Peter Fankhauser <fankp@darmstadt.gmd.de>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 06:51:47 +0200
- To: <www-xml-query-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: <dransom@pacificcoast.net>, <w3c-xml-query-wg@w3.org>
Dear Doug Ransom, in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/2000Aug/0016.html you wrote <cite> I would like to suggest the comittee consider making a requirement that there be a formal semantics for xml query. </cite> "The XML Query WG agrees - a formal semantics is more than just a requirement, it is a fundamental goal of XML Query. The charter for XML Query says: 'The goal of the XML Query Working Group is to produce a formal data model for XML documents with Namespaces (based on the XML Infoset), a set of query operators on that data model (a so-called algebra), and then a query language with a concrete canonical syntax based on the proposed operators.' In addition, the Section 1 (Goals) of the requirements document says: 'The goal of the XML Query Working Group is to produce a data model for XML documents, a set of query operators on that data model, and a query language based on these query operators.' A first step towards this formal semantics is the XML Query Data Model (see http://www.w3.org/TR/query-datamodel/)" All the best, Peter Fankhauser
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