• To: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:20:02 -0500
• Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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I agree - the XPath/XQuery/XSLT is a good data model, and I would pick 
the same one.

Jonathan

Daniela Florescu wrote:
>> Tim's point was that you couldn't have a native XML programming 
>> language because there is no data model for XML. Fact is, there are 
>> many. Pick one.
> 
> I picked mine Jonathan. The XQuery and XSLT Data Model.
> 
> It's the only one among all possibilities that satisfies ALL my 
> requirements:
> 
> 1) be an abstract data model, not an API that implies a certain data
> access pattern
> 2) cover the entire Infoset
> 3) cover schema validated as well as non schema validated data
> 4) be usable
> 5) have at least one data processing language based on it
>       (there are actually three: XPath 2.0, XQuery and XSLT 2.0)
> 6) show evidence that it can be implemented
> 7) co-exist peacefully with the other XML data models
> 

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  • Re: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: Web Services/SOA)
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  • XML-aware programming language? - was Re: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations
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  • Re: XML-aware programming language?
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
  • Re: XML-aware programming language?
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  • Re: XML-aware programming language?
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