- From: "David A. Lee" <dlee@c...>
- To: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@g...>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:19:47 -0400
Not quite sure I follow you.
Are you suggesting that the Serialization format in fact could be
identical to the XQuery syntax that would produce that format ?
Much like say the JSON format is equivalent to the JavaScript code that
produces that data ?
That could work ... but there's some issues offhand.
1) You have to have an XQuery parser or atleast part of one
--> One of the use cases is to be able to parse this data into
NON-XDM Aware programs
2) typed data may be more difficult ( is "1" an xs:integer or
xs:decimal ? If the actual XDM data had this type we want to serialize
it)
--> One of the use cases is to have access to the type of all items
3) May not be canonical. That is there may be more then one way to
represent the same sequence
--> One of the use cases is a canonical format. although that is
only needed once you reconstitute the sequence.
All these could possibly be solved with some "rules" about what subset
of XQuery is used. e.g. But it may take a LOT of rules.
David A. Lee
dlee@c...
http://www.calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org
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Kurt Cagle wrote:
6fa681b10909191951v221b11cerb0b8e9e9ae444383@m..."
type="cite">I'm going to ask what may be an obvious question, but
wouldn't it make sense for a serialization of a sequence to correspond
on the output to the serialization on the input? That is to say, if you
had a structure:
("foo",5,<bar><bat/></bar>,<!-- foo -->)
internally, wouldn't that also be the serialization format? Admittedly,
there's a little more complexity in dealing with fragments and the
like, but at least with the sequence case, the delimiters would
presumably be those used for XQuery on input.
Kurt Cagle
Managing Editor
http://xmlToday.org
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, <rjelliffe@a...>
wrote:
Probably
someone has mentioned this, but one approach might be based on
Michael's attributes:
http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xmlschema-psvi-in-xml
I also think there is merit in something like the following:
<xdm:typed-document>
<xdm:type>
<rdf:bag>
<xs:string/>
<xs:unsignedShort length="4" />
</rdf:bag>
</xdm:type>
<xdm:data>
<address>
<city>Sydney</city>
<postcode>2009</city>
</address>
</xdm:data>
</xdm:typed-document>
Where the original document can be reconstructed merely by taking the
/*/*[2]/* branch, and there is one element in the type branch for every
element in the data branch.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
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