[xquery-talk] Collections - family relationships

[David Lee]

Docs don't even need uri's. ... That's where the fun really starts in info space

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David A Lee
dlee at calldei.com


> On Jan 5, 2014, at 9:16 PM, "Liam R E Quin" <liam at w3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 22:23 +0000, David Lee wrote:
>> Seems there is no guarantee that
>>   uri-collection()!doc(.)   produces the same results as collection()
> 
> Right - collection() really marks the border of what we (W3C) could
> standardize at the time, when many implementations of XQuery do not (for
> example) use a database at all, or store a representation of parsed and
> data-typed XML in ISAM or in a single relational field accessible from
> SQL...
> 
> Liam
> 
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