RE: XQuery -- Reinventing the Wheel?

[Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>]

At 05:19 PM 2/22/2001 -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote:

>I guess there is nothing then that would prevent an XQuery from
>being expressed as (compiled into) an XSLT template.  Interesting
>possibility.  Certainly in this process of translating an XQuery
>into XSLT stylesheet one would get a deep understanding of both
>technologies and be able to positively affect the evolution of
>both specifications.  Looks like a great research project.  It
>would really help "bootstrap" XQuery... as well as provide
>really good documentation.

As a matter of fact, I would be very surprised if nobody does just that.

Jonathan

These are my opinions right now. They may be quite different from the 
opinions of Software AG, the W3C XML Query Working Group, or the opinions 
that I will have after reading and considering your response.