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Go easy, Dare, the poor guy's from Product Marketing.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
> Sent: 23 July 2002 00:16
> To: Chris Parkerson; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] [ANN] Ipedo XML Database 3.1 Now Available
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Parkerson [mailto:cparkerson@ipedo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:03 PM
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: [xml-dev] [ANN] Ipedo XML Database 3.1 Now Available
> >
> >
> > Ipedo has released a new vision of it's award-winning XML
> > product suite. This new version includes an updated version
> > of the Ipedo XML Database, PC Magazine's Editor's Choice
> > <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,63211,00.asp> for Best
> > XML Database, and Ipedo Web Express, a toolkit that
> > accelerates development of XML-based J2EE web applications.
> > Other new features in the 3.1 release include:
> > - Update support via XQuery - extensions to Ipedo's XQuery
> > interface to support granular XML updates, in-line with the
> > current update syntax proposals before the W3C
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1.) What update syntax proposals before the W3C?
>
> 2.) According to your website's[0] "Features At A Glance"
> section your product has
>
> * Support for the latest XML standards including XML
> Schema, XQuery and XSLT
>
> Given that the current XQuery working draft[1] states
>
> "XQuery is a strongly typed language. Rules for assigning
> types to XQuery expressions are described in [XQuery 1.0
> Formal Semantics]. A query may import type definitions from a
> Schema, according to rules that will be specified in a future
> edition of [XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics]."
>
>
> I am curious as to how you guys support XQuery since the type
> system, schema importation and the entire formal semantics is
> pretty much still in a state of flux with significant
> questions still to be answered. Does Ipedo implement the
> XQuery type system? If so which W3C document does it conform
> to and if not isn't that the whole point of XQuery?
>
> I guess I could just download the trial version (if there are no legal
> issues) but its always good to talk to XQuery implementers
> since I don't think I've read or heard any opinions/comments
> about it from anyone that doesn't work for MS.
>
>
> [0] http://www.ipedo.com/html/products_xml_dat.html
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-20020430
>
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