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Whoa, what a lively discussion and I am spending my time on work :-). Ron, with all respect, if you ask a certain subset of users/adopters about how they plan on using a certain technology, don't be surprised if they provide an answer that is influenced by their context. If you would have asked a company like BEA or other companies that are more interested in transforming streaming data, you may have heart more about "translating messages". Best regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...] > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:43 PM > To: 'XML Developers List' > Subject: Re: What niche is XQuery targeting? > > Jonathan Robie wrote: > > Tom Bradford wrote: > >> The XQuery implementation that I participated in was meant for > >> transforming messages in an orchestration engine. Seems > to me that > >> that is probably the best niche for XQuery overall, but > time will tell. > > > > > > Doesn't seem like the best niche to me. Data integration > scenarios are > > probably the best niche, or just plain XML reporting from > various data > > sources, including at least one that is a large scale data store. > > Agreed. I've recently been surveying native XML database > companies (not quite the same group as XQuery vendors, but > useful overlap) about use cases, and the results largely > agree with Jonathan. Translating messages was rarely mentioned. > > -- Ron > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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