RE: [xml-dev] storing XML files

["Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Parkerson [mailto:chrisp@exceloncorp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: 'Ronald Bourret'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Cc: 'Albena Georgieva'
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] storing XML files
> 

[putting on my marketing hat, sigh]
 
> About Tamino's query support: install Tamino 2.3.1.4.  Their query
> language is a hodgepodge of some XPath and proprietary syntax 
> that ends
> up not XPath and that they unfittingly call "XQuery" (and it's not
> XQuery as the community knows it either).  

One of my colleagues has written a nice article explaining what Tamino does
to "embrace and extend" XPath and why:
http://www.softwareag.com/xml/library/harbarth_X-Query.htm


> It's a fact, they know it,

For better or worse, Tamino developers invented a simple schema language
long before the W3C XSD even took shape, and invented the term "X-Query" to
describe the XPath+wildcards language before the W3C decided to call their
effort "XQuery". 

Speaking of XQuery and the XML community, I invite interested people
download our prototype implementation of the language at
http://www.softwareag.com/developer/download.htm and express opinions on the
language and/or the implementation in the XML Query forum at
http://forums.tamino.com/3/OpenTopic 

[taking off my marketing hat and hoping that we can focus on TECHNOLOGY on
this list -- hint, hint!]