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I'll throw out the use cases I'm looking at - using web services
against heterogeneous data sources. We have a number of data sources -
RDBMSs, Excel docs, and proprietary formatted files - which we want to
allow to be exposed via web services, i.e., provide services which
queries the data sources and returns large XML docs. Sometimes, these
queries are for reporting purposes. Sometimes, its to gather meta-data
information for cataloging. We hope that updates are added to XQuery
so these same clients can someday submit XML via some service we
provide and have it placed in the appropriate data source.<br>
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Michael Kay wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Actually, my reading of the article is that the examples are entirely
hypothetical, I don't read them as case studies of things that people
are doing today.
Certainly it would be pretty crazy using XQuery for these applications
today, given that they can all be done very easily with XSLT, which
might be a bit more long-winded but is at least a stable specification
with many robust implementations.
What articles like this do show is that there seems to be considerable
interest in using XQuery for "transformations", not only for database
queries. Once both specs are stable and have mature implementations, I
think there's going to be a lot of debate about which language to use
for which purposes.
Michael Kay
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To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk@x-query.com">talk@x-query.com</a>
Subject: [xquery-talk] Article: "Five Practical XQuery Applications"
FYI. I just ran across this article, published in May:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/15618">http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/15618</a>
Realizing that the spec is still in working draft, I'd be
interested to
hear of other real-world problems that folks are tackling, in
whole or
in part, with XQuery.
Mike
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