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• Subject: RE: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:08:46 +0100
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> Are you guys just talking about read-only XQuery?  Are we 
> going to have to
> wait another 5 years to get read-write support in XQuery?

Yes, the language which Tim Bray described as an attempt to solve all the
query problems at one go is indeed a read-only query language.

Sometimes, when you get attacked from both directions at once, you feel you
might have got the balance about right.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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