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Situations where I would want updates...
1.) The ability to rename elements/attributes if a change in the document
format ever occurs
2.) Addition of PIs to a group of documents, e.g. adding a stylesheet PI for a
collection of documents is a NXD.
3.) Changing namespace information on documents based on old namespace URIs,
e.g. changing "http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema"; to
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema " for documents written before the XML
Schema REC.
4.) Replacement of typographical errors that may have occured in a large
number of documents or in multiple parts of one document.
5.) Modifications of the structure a class of documents so that they conform
to a certain schema especially if the documents will be used in data
interchange scenarios with other entities.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Vickery" <macacos@linkline.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:56 AM
Subject: [xml-dev] Are Updates really needed in XQuery?
> I have a simple question, "Why do we need updates as part of the XQuery
> language at all?"
>
> I have read the latest XQuery Update proposal (from the "XQuery Update
> Proposal" by Patrick Lehti) and the older XUpdate WD. I come from a
> database background and view updates as imperative to the XQuery/XPath
> language, but can't state "why". I'm getting a lot of grief regarding
> having Updates at all. The types of "inserts" and "deletes" typically shown
> are just adding/deleting a document from a "collection" (if collections
> existed and they should IMHO).
>
> Some examples are:
>
> 1. If I have a collection of XML invoices why would I ever want to update
> these? An invoice is written once and never changed!
>
> 2. If I have a document centric collection of XML document I would most
> likely version each document, thus why do we need updates?
>
> 3. If I have all my business contacts (companies I do business with) stored
> in an XML collection, why wouldn't I just do a complete replace if I wanted
> to change a companies name or address?
>
> Does anyone have any real life scenarios/business cases that "MUST" have
> updates?
>
> thanks,
>
>
>
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