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I don't believe its impossible either, but I was thinking, as a purely
functional language (if that makes a difference?)<br>
Is there any set of computations that xquery couldn't theoretically
execute, that say a procedural language could ?<br>
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<pre wrap="">It might be *possible* to do in XQuery but its not a simple
"translation" of one query language to another, it would take
writing an inference engine in xquery. quite a project.
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If you can write an interpreter for a query language then you can write a
compiler for it. And compiling into XQuery is probably easier than compiling
into machine code. So as far as I can see, it doesn't look intrinsically
impossible at all.
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