Re: [xml-dev] The use of XML syntax in XML Query from Tim Bray on 2002-01-03 (www-xml-query-comments@w3.org from January 2002)

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:45:59 -0800
To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson), David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Cc: www-xml-query-comments@w3.org, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020103094316.022b7b30@pop.intergate.ca>

At 01:38 PM 03/01/02 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
><myQR>
>&lt;bib>
>            {
>             for $b in document("http://www.bn.com")/bib/book
>             where $b/publisher = "Addison-Wesley" and $b/@year > 1991
>             return
>               &lt;livre ann&#xe9;e={ $b/@year }>
>                &lt;cr&#xe9;ateur> { $b/author } &lt;/cr&#xe9;ateur>
>                { $b/title }
>               &lt;/livre>

Jeepers Henry, that's horrible!  Blecccch. This seems to involve
all the costs & pain of XML (awkward escaping syntax, verbosity)
with none of the benefits (readability, simplicity).  Can this 
turkey be made to fly?

Or are we all missing something obvious? -Tim

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