[xquery-talk] [XQuery] limitations

[James Fuller]

check out www.exquery.org which attempts to address some of the
limitations of XQuery

http://www.exquery.org/standards/use-cases.xql

lists out a few use cases (badly formatted) where XQuery has deficiencies.

hth, Jim Fuller

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Michalmas <michalmas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi gents,
>
> I was wondering what are the limitations of XQuery? For instance,
> there are some limitations of regular exp (you can't parse what is not
> defined by a regular language). Since XQuery uses XPath which uses reg
> exp - does it bring any limitations to XQuery search engine?
>
> I tried to google some examples, but mostly someone was able to
> prepare interesting query.
>
> I mean here typical XQuery and reg exp (there are some extensions to
> reg exp that diminish such limitations somehow, but here i am
> interested in pure definitions)
>
> Thanks,
> Michal
>
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