One other observation on this "benchmark":
> Note how in the XQuery case I had to invent a delimiter (':')
> for the first, last, and age fields so that I could pass them
> as a string from XQuery to the programming language. I then
> had to manually parse this string and convert the age field
> to unsigned short. To me, this doesn't look easier than data
> binding at all.
The idea I'm pushing is that you write the application end-to-end using
XML-based languages. That means that you never convert the data into C++ or
Java data types. If you only go half way, by calling XQuery from Java and
then converting the results to Java values, you lose half the benefits.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
