• To: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Subject: Re: What niche is XQuery targeting?
• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:01:05 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:57:08PM -0800, Robert Koberg wrote:
> Why do you think an xsl:apply-templates would need to examine your 
> entire db (even if it could)? Your uri resolver could grab what you need 
> to return to the transformation.
The model is that XSLT (or XQuery) is running over instances of
the XPath 2 data model.  Implementations exist that project
relational database tables so that they appear to be XML documents,
so that there's no special code "grabbing" data.

> Heck, you could form some XQuery string in XSLT 1.0, send it to a uri 
> resolver (through document()), which then does the xquery, then returns 
> the result back to the transformation so you can apply-templates.

Yes, you could do that. It's a good demonstration of the difference
in focus between XSLT and XQuery that I was trying to illustrate.

Best,

Liam

-- 
Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

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