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> 5/2/2002 11:44:28 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > No offence whatsoever to you or the XML Query group,
> > but I don't expect > to be using XQuery very much, so XQuery
> > integration is the least of my concerns for an XML update
> > language.
>
> Why don't you expect to be using XQuery much? Because of some
> limitation of the XQuery language? Because you already have the
> tools you need in XPath, SAX/DOM, and/or XSLT? Because of the
> impedence mismatch between Yet Another Progrqamming Language and the
> one you already use?
I am a very poor sample member for any survey (probably on any topic), but I don't expect to use XQuery much because of its complexity and its fixation with strong typing (same reasons I don't expect to be using XSDL much). Yes, XPath does much of what I need, but actually I have another weapon for large-scale query.
I use 4Suite as XML repository. On insert/modify/delete, I reflect significant "fields" into XML's RDF DBMS. 4Suite makes it pretty easy to automate and manage this process. Usually, in this way I can take care of all things likely to be addressed in structured form. Then I just use 4Suite's RDF query capability for such addressing. I can always fall back to full-text searching for addressing the XML without regard to structure.
I've done this often enough in practice to be very comfortable with its utility and reasonably comfortable with its performance.
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Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com http://fourthought.com
http://4Suite.org http://uche.ogbuji.net
Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/
RDF Query using Versa - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think10/index.html
WSDL and the Wild, Wild West - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6004
XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel
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