• To: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: SV: SV: New XSLT, XPath, and XQuery drafts - but still no update?
• From: "Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI" <jens.jakob.andersen@p...>
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 10:24:31 +0200
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• Thread-topic: SV: New XSLT, XPath, and XQuery drafts - but still no update?

Hi Jonathan

This is interesting, but also what worries me (and has worried me all the time.)

If the spec doesnt take care of Update, vendors will implement their own syntax & semantics, and there will be no standard.

Then XQuery will _not_ become the SQL of XML.

JJ

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Jonathan Robie 
> [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...]
> Sendt: 1. maj 2002 16:25
> Til: Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Emne: Re: SV:  New XSLT, XPath, and XQuery drafts - but still
> no update?
> 
> 
> At 04:08 PM 5/1/2002 +0200, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote:
> >Hi Jonathan
> >
> >Nice work, but still no update (issue 164) as far as I can see?
> 
> No, no updates, and I doubt that updates will be in XQuery 1.0.
> 
> As before, several vendors are implementing similar versions 
> of updates 
> based on an early proposal. The best formulation of that 
> proposal is now a 
> thesis done by Patrick Lehti:
> 
> http://www.lehti.de/beruf/diplomarbeit.pdf
> 
> There should be some public proposal based on that, but I 
> doubt that it 
> will be part of the XQuery 1.0 Rec per se.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 

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