[xquery-talk] Re: The State of Native XML databases

[Frank Cohen]

Hi John: Thanks for your postings to the XQuery list. I enjoy your  
postings.

As an example... Ilya needs to do transactional node-level updates.  
How does he get that when XQuery has no updates specification?

XML lets me do typing using complex data types. Some XML DBs support  
XSD and some DTD while others don't do any validation.

Hope this helps.

-Frank




On Aug 21, 2007, at 3:18 PM, John Snelson wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> Frank Cohen wrote:
>> 1) The Implementations Provide The Full Benefits of The Data Model.
>> The XML data model is wonderfully rich and flexible. There is big  
>> divide that developers have to overcome when going from the XML  
>> data model to an XML database. It is not a given that XQuery is  
>> way to implement a database for the XML data model. When I was at  
>> the W3C Plenary 2 years ago there was plenty of energy in  
>> discussing alternatives to XQuery and XSLT. And I would prefer to  
>> write code today, not wait another 7 years for a standard like  
>> XQuery to emerge.
>
> What do you see as the limitations of XQuery that don't provide you  
> "the full benefits of the data model"? I thought that the XQuery  
> data model was a superset of the XML data model.
>
> John
>
>



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