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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>I agree with John. Absence of an application platform
like Rails is one of the main reason of not using XQuery widely. According to
our experience (we are developers of Sedna XML DB) with Sedna users only very
smart programmers can build *end-to-end* applications using XQuery. <SPAN
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color=#0000ff size=2>They shouldn't even try (in fact, I don't think they are
very smart if they do try). Use something like Orbeon XPL as the general
application framework, and use it to link together components written in XQuery,
XSLT, XForms, or anything else. The important thing is that the data
should be in XML end-to-end, not that the logic should be in XQuery
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color=#0000ff size=2>Michael Kay</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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