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Re: [xml-dev] Adam Bosworth on XML and W3C
- From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@rpbourret.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:07:57 -0700
"Champion, Mike" wrote:
>
> "The size and complexity of the Schema and the Query are staggering. They
> dwarf that of the relational world. There is no layering, no well-defined
> starting subset. Make no mistake. These are not easy or simple
> specifications. The very syntax is intimidating sometimes in its complexity."
This is interesting. Has anybody else asked for factoring in XQuery? Is
there a reasonable factoring? (One obvious factoring is to move
user-defined functions to a separate module, but I don't know the spec
well enough to suggest others.)
-- Ron