XQuery as a general data processing language WAS:
[xquery-talk]XQuery and Web 2.0
Michael Kay
mike at saxonica.com
Sat Apr 26 09:29:48 PDT 2008
> I think personally XQuery needs dynamic dispatch. I think it
> did not make it in XQuery 1.0 because we didn't have the
> bandwidth for it (like for groupby), and maybe the WG didn't
> understand the issue at that time.
>
> It would be nice to be able to mix and match XSLT programs
> and XQuery programs in a standard way.
>
> Would that solve the problem ?
Yes, I think with those two enhancements XQuery would be much more
scaleable.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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