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On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:14, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> In fact, datatypes are optional in XML schema, static typing will probably
> be optional in XQuery (there is a note in the XQuery document to that
> effect), and the operators of XQuery and XPath are all defined for untyped
> data as well as for typed data. I think that we have put a *lot* of work
> into making sure that our type system scales to typed data, untyped data,
> and mixtures of the two.
I don't think that "the features are optional" even begins to qualify as
an answer to the questions we're raising.
> Please, can we see some queries that cause problems, or things that are
> hard to say or do in XQuery?
No. I'm not looking for additional features - I'm looking for fewer
features. This isn't a question of particular queries needing
additional features.
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Simon St.Laurent
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