[xquery-talk] RE: Future of XQuery and XQuery Update Faclilty

[Daniela Florescu]

Thomas,

arguing on this mailing list is not a very productive way of spending  
the time.

If there is a technique that you think XQuery should really adopt,  
and you really
care about it, the best way to proceed is to write a proposal, and  
send it to W3C as
a technical note. I am sure it will be considered with attention.

Best regards,
Dana



On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Thomas Lord wrote:

> Jonathan Robie wrote:
>> Thomas Lord wrote:
>>> If, in some context, an XQuery is expected to yield a "plain XML"
>>> description of pending updates, then it can lazily evaluate these
>>> results, optimistically performing updates in exactly the manner you
>>> describe, as the query itself is still running.
>>
>> The goal of the update language is to allow XML instances to be  
>> modified, not to create plain XML descriptions of pending updates.  
>> What you describe could be useful, but it's a completely different  
>> problem domain.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
> I disagree but I bet we both agree we're at the "leave it at that"  
> point in very nice conversation.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -t
>
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