Re: [xml-dev] YPath, ZPath?

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Oh dear. First impolite reply.
How boring.

On 12 April 2016 at 22:43, daniela florescu <dflorescu@me.com> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
>
> given that the paper you cite doesn’t seem to bother doing a decent
> comparison with the state
> of the art, I’m asking the question here:
>
> How does this compare with the JSONiq query language (http://jsoniq.org), as
> well with the JSound JSON Schema
> language (https://github.com/cezarfx/jsound/blob/master/JSoundSpec.md)
>
> Both of which precede with at least 2 years this paper.
>
> P.S. Next time, maybe a thorough and comprehensive state of the art
> comparison would help advance the
>  technology better, Michael.
>
> Thanks
> Dana
>
> On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>
>
> If the XSLT, XQUERY constraints were removed (MK comments "I wouldn't
> start from here") what might such a model look like and would it have
> a significant use case?
>
>
> I made an attempt at this with my FtanML paper at Balisage two or three
> years ago.
>
> http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Kay01/BalisageVol10-Kay01.html
>
> Starting with a markup language that tried to combine what XML and JSON do
> well into a unified scheme, which could be described as JSON plus mixed
> content, or as XML with typed attributes.
>
> Then defined a simple data model on top of this, and then a query language
> (I rather like the name, FtanSkrit) and schema language on top of the data
> model.
>
> I think it showed that it can be done. But of course, the fact that
> something can be done doesn't mean that you can achieve uptake.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>
>
>
>
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