[xquery-talk] RE: Future of XQuery and XQuery Update Faclilty
Michael Kay
mike at saxonica.com
Mon Oct 22 18:19:36 PDT 2007
> > The pending update list is purely an abstraction used
> internally by an
> > implementation. What benefit would there be to
> externalizing it in a
> > standard way? How would you propose to do this with "straight XML"?
> >
>
> I'll highlight four benefits:
>
...
I can see the attraction, but it seems to force XQuery processors to
implement the language in a way that is a very direct and naive realization
of the way the language is specified, which leaves little room for
optimization.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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