SV: 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 Joe

> Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I really don't see that happening.  It seems to me that most
> native XML database vendors are cooperating in the xmldb

But I dont see:
- Native XML databases survive, or make sense in the marketplace (unless in very specialized niche markets with no significant economic growth)

- Much that is not supported by IBM, Oracle and MS survive profitablei n the long run

JJ