XQuery feedback

• From: Evan Lenz <elenz@xyzfind.com>
• Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:54:34 -0800
• To: <www-xml-query-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <BNEMICIEADHDDOIKLHNCAEMNDIAA.elenz@xyzfind.com>

After reviewing the XQuery spec, I'm concluding that the overlap between
XQuery and XSLT is far too great for the W3C to reasonably recommend them
both as separate languages. If XSLT (or XSLT 2.0) isn't considered adequate
as an XML query language by itself, then the development of an XML query
language should still build from the same semantic and syntactic base as
XSLT, rather than inventing an entirely new syntax and semantics.

Please see my arguments fleshed out in:

"XQuery: Reinventing the Wheel?"
http://www.xmlportfolio.com/xquery.html

Thank you,

Evan Lenz
XYZFind Corp.

Received on Thursday, 22 February 2001 00:43:06 UTC