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- To: "Arjun Ray" <aray@nyct.net>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
- From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 02:10:16 -0700
- Thread-index: AcH4rviSwvtnlcODSdWiH+bTQ1OmngAHJNrs
- Thread-topic: [xml-dev] XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
*cough* bs *cough*
XPath doesn't satisfy DBMS vendors and neither does its big brother XQuery. Bzzzt, try again.
-----Original Message-----
From: Arjun Ray [mailto:aray@nyct.net]
Sent: Fri 5/10/2002 10:43 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
In <00c501c1f8aa$8fd5b240$4bc8a8c0@AlletteSystems.com>, "Rick Jelliffe"
<ricko@allette.com.au> wrote:
| From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
|> This change was made because database systems need to use indexes to
|> evaluate boolean expressions.
|
| Why is it a requirement that XPath2 pander to DBMS-specific functions?
AFAICT, it isn't a requirement. It's a teleological imperative. That's
what "we need data types" has always been about.
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