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Re: [xml-dev] Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225)

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To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225)
From: Burak Emir <Burak.Emir@epfl.ch>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:49:15 +0200
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, mailto:jsr-225-comments@jcp.org
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Jonathan,

Jonathan Robie wrote:

> The Early Draft Review has been released for XQuery for Java (XQJ), 
> which is being developed under Java Community Process as JSR 225.
>
I just cannot believe that one can seriously want to repeat the IMHO 
biggest design error of JDBC, namely to pass *strings* to the library.

This effectively kills all possibilities of static (compile-time) 
verification of queries, like syntax checking (let alone types).

flabbergasted...

Burak

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