• From: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@y...>
• To: " Roger L.Costello" <costello@m...>, Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:40:56 +0000 (GMT)

Michael, this is an application-level response to the challenge of "structure-agnostic navigation". So far, so good, but how about the standards, XML technology - can it, will it evolve in order to enable new channels of navigation, additional to XPath + fn:doc + fn:collection?

Hans-Juergen

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Michael Kay <mike@s...> schrieb am Do, 20.2.2014:

  > You can encapsulate all three mechanisms behind a
 function (or two functions, one for each direction of the
 relationship), and I would certainly recommend doing that in
 many cases.

• References:
  • Re: Grand Challenge: the same query, independent of how data relationships are modeled
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>