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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.
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