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--- Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
wrote:
> At 12:02 PM -0400 5/12/02, Mike Champion wrote:
>
>
> >>Where exactly does it state that?
> >
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
> >
> >"One of the great strengths of XML is its
> flexibility in representing
> >many different kinds of information from diverse
> sources. To exploit
> >this flexibility, an XML query language must
> provide features for
> >retrieving and interpreting information from these
> diverse sources."
> >
> >"It is designed to be a small, easily implementable
> language in which
> >queries are concise and easily understood. It is
> also flexible enough
> >to query a broad spectrum of XML information
> sources, including both
> >databases and documents. ... XQuery is derived from
> an XML query
> >language called Quilt [Quilt], which in turn
> borrowed features from
> >several other languages, including XPath 1.0 [XPath
> 1.0], XQL [XQL],
> >XML-QL [XML-QL], SQL [SQL], and OQL [ODMG]."
> >
>
> I always understood that to refer to native XML
> databases. I never
> thought it meant traditional relational databases.
> And that says
> nothing about querying objects.
SQL - relational databases
OQL - object oriented databases
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