- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:41:22 -0500
- To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com>, "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, www-xml-query-comments@w3.org, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
At 4:14 PM -0500 1/3/02, Jonathan Robie wrote: >However, I think that a lot of people like the XML constructor >syntax, because if you want to construct XML, you can simply type in >the equivalent XML text, or copy it from an existing document. > How many people even know this is an option? I certainly didn't until this thread. I studied XQuery mostly by reading the use cases draft (the most accessible of the various very technical documents IMO) and playing around with Quip. I didn't notice any examples of the no-brackets syntax while doing that. I've gone to one or two seminars on XQuery and only saw the brackets syntax. I suspect if the example queries in the documents people were learning from were rewritten in the no-brackets syntax, then people might respond differently. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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