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