[xquery-talk] RE: Future of XQuery and XQuery Update Faclilty
Thomas Lord
lord at emf.net
Sat Oct 20 21:50:04 PDT 2007
Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:
> Hello FLorian,
>
> may I add a little remark? I urgently await the XQUF and simply cannot understand that your question is not asked by many voices (including mine, until today).
>
Why is there a need for XQUF?
Pending updates could be expressed in straight XML. Why
is a new and non-externalizable type needed to supplement
XDM? It seems a horrible rule, not least because of the
segregation of "declare updating function" procedures from
"declare function" in the static type rules for XQuery.
-t
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