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On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:14, Jonathan Robie wrote: > In fact, datatypes are optional in XML schema, static typing will probably > be optional in XQuery (there is a note in the XQuery document to that > effect), and the operators of XQuery and XPath are all defined for untyped > data as well as for typed data. I think that we have put a *lot* of work > into making sure that our type system scales to typed data, untyped data, > and mixtures of the two. I don't think that "the features are optional" even begins to qualify as an answer to the questions we're raising. > Please, can we see some queries that cause problems, or things that are > hard to say or do in XQuery? No. I'm not looking for additional features - I'm looking for fewer features. This isn't a question of particular queries needing additional features. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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