• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:19:20 +0200

* Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>They are both standard query languages for databases. If you just stopped
>there, you might be tempted to say that therefore one was extraneous and
>so should not be a standard.

This is an excellent point indeed and I would like to invite you to come
back to us with it--once the number of XML office formats approaches the
number of query languages in use, and standardization would help to re-
move opportunities to make incompatible and otherwise bad choices. Until
then people might not see the similarity between picking two among many
hundreds and two among two.
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• References:
  • RE: Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
  • RE: Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS
    • From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@h...>
  • RE: Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS
    • From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@a...>
  • RE: Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
  • RE: Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • RE: Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>