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On Monday 27 December 2004 20:00, Daniela Florescu wrote: > > Could you guys please try to clarify for me the answer to > the following question: instead > hand coding steaming applications using SAX, couldn't you > write some XQuery code (with external functions probably) > to do the same thing ? Did you try at least ? Did you try > and fail ? If yes, why did it fail ? > Funny, I was just discussing why this might be with someone from work an hour ago. My perspective is not that valid, being an implementor more often than a user, but our conclusion was this is as much about practical issues than technical. The main problems being the relatively poor integration between the programming languages of choice and XQuery/XSLT and lack of interesting implementations in easy to use component form. I am personally starting to think there is a very real hole between standard OM based XPath and the top end all singing and dancing XML processing solutions. One that perhaps a re-factored XPath 1.0 would fit in much better than anything else I can think of. Kev.
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