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   Re: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?

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Roger L. Costello wrote:

> Given this, I am wondering what niche XQuery is expecting to fill?  /Roger

A query language for native XML databases. It is allegedly more easy to 
optimize in such an environment than other languages, though this seems 
to be little more than a hypothesis at this point. Maybe it's true. 
maybe it isn't.

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