SV: [xml-dev] Who'e expecting to use XQuery? (was Re: [xml-dev] Yet another plea forupdate)

["Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI" <jens.jakob.andersen@post.dk>]

Hi Mike

> I honestly think that XQuery could do for XML what SQL did for the 
> relational model -- put a single, general tool into the repertoire 
> of mainstream developers that gives them a lot of power to deal with 
> the new approach without having to wrestle with its bizarre details.  


I had the same feeling last time I heard Jonathan Robie present XQuery. But!

Unless XQuery also caters for Update, it will never become the SQL of XML, it will be overrun by individual vendor implemantations (probably more like the BASIC of XML) that will work on individual platforms, have similarities, but not be a standard.

JJ