RE: [xml-dev] XQuery types was Re: [xml-dev] Yet another plea for XUpdate...

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:02 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XQuery types was Re: [xml-dev] Yet 
> another plea for XUpdate...
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 13:36, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> > At 10:09 AM 5/8/2002 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > >I personally fail to see any reason why XQuery
> > >implementers should go out of their way to try to be 
> interoperable if 
> > >doing so would require undue difficulty on their end.
> > 
> > Are you seriously saying that vendors should implement 
> whatever they 
> > want,
> > instead of implementing the spec, if they find something 
> that is easier to 
> > implement? Perhaps the W3C should stop writing 
> "Recommendations" and start 
> > writing "Hints". But I don't see how that leads to 
> interoperability, and I 
> > think users want interoperability.
> 
> I think Dare was merely saying that the motivating factors 
> for XQuery implementors to focus on interop are different 
> from and less powerful than the motivating factors for W3C 
> XML Schema interop.
> 
> The experiences I've had in moving information and queries 
> between relational databases suggest to me that he may in 
> fact be right.  All of it was SQL, yes...  but since 
> developers typically write code against a particular backend 
> at some point in the process, they don't worry about whether 
> that code will work just as well against any other backend.
> 
> With schemas, there's a much greater chance that you'll be 
> sharing schemas which then need to work in a wide variety of 
> very different environments.
> 

Exactly. 

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