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Elliotte Harold wrote: > Burak Emir wrote: > >> Progamming API for XML query languages should make programming easy. >> >> Here's an apparently very controversial question: Easy for the database >> writer, or for the application writer? >> > > The question isn't at all controversial. The answer is obvious: easy > for the application writer. The same could be said for any API. The > goal of having an API at all is to make life easier for the person who > uses the API. The problem is implementing the obvious answer. > I had the doubtful pleasure of getting lost in quite a long thread, after Jon Robie posted "Early Draft Review has been released for XQuery for Java (XQJ)" Certainly, I have lost hope since then that there will ever be an XQuery API that is *not* based on passing strings with queries around. |But then, in discussions outside of this list, it was argued that Java is just not up for tasks like representing programs symbolically in a simple manner. The best proof is that SUN has also started to offer XPath functions via a string based API (see javax.xml.xpath ...). There's simply no cure for it... Burak Emir http://lamp.epfl.ch/~buraq |
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