[xquery-talk] [Announce] XQilla version 1.1.0 released

John Snelson john.snelson at oracle.com
Tue Sep 4 15:00:13 PDT 2007


Andrew Welch wrote:
> On 9/4/07, John Snelson <john.snelson at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Welch wrote:
>>> On 9/4/07, John Snelson <john.snelson at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The point I was trying to make was that XQuery + XML DB should be able
>>> to select nodes far faster than XSLT + REST API, so the ideal
>>> combination is XSLT + XQuery extension function.
>> Surely what you really want is an XSLT processor in the XML database?
> 
> That would be ideal... as long as XSLT is susceptible to all of the
> optimisations that XQuery is.  (which I don't think it is)

I haven't studied XSLT 2.0 in detail to know what I think about whether 
it can be optimised, but the embedded XPath 2.0 can certainly be 
optimised in the same way as XQuery can.

John


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