<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">One thing that did strike me is the link cited in one of the comments about this article:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1961297" class="">http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1961297</a></span></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Just look at the examples.</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Does everyone see what I see !? :-)</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Those are just FLWOR expressions, with FOR spelled as FROM and RETURN spelled</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">as SELECT.</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">Can we PLEASE add those as synonyms in the XQuery grammar before you close XQuery 3.1 !?</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">Otherwise we’ll hear for another 100 years that XQuery has nothing to do with SQL while THIS language</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">describe in this paper DOES. (sic!)</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">It’s dumb, but that’s how it is.</span></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">Pretty please !???</span></span></font></div></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">Thanks</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class="">Dana</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:04 AM, daniela florescu <<a href="mailto:dflorescu@me.com" class="">dflorescu@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ihe,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">you asked why XQuery is not more popular.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is another striking answer to your question: NOBODY KNOWS IT EXISTS.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just look at this example.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sql-vs-discrepancy-somil-asthana?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sql-vs-discrepancy-somil-asthana?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I quote: "<span style="color: rgb(77, 79, 81); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Indisputably, there may be people who are working on Non Relational</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(77, 79, 81); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> Algebra and Non Tuple Relational Calculus, its just that we do not know them.</span><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class="">”</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(77, 79, 81); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class="">[[[Can someone just answer this guy, so I don’t have to insult him/her !?</span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class="">Because I feel a really strong urge….I’ll try to breathe and do some meditation….]]]</span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class="">In fact, I know that this is not his/her limitation.</span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class="">It’s our OWN failure to explain to the world what XQuery is, what it does, and what is good at.</span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#4d4f51" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></div><div class="">Best regards</div></div><div class="">Dana</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.S. And after that, please DON’T ask me why I am SO pissed off at MarkLogic who pretend they never ate the garlic, not does</div><div class="">their mouth smell of garlic…..</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They MADE all their money out of the power of XQuery (expressiveness, productivity, etc), yet they pretend they’ve never heard of it….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s something that REALLY gets me angry.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And this will come back to bait them on the business side very badly too. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Oracle would have NEVER done the same thing about SQL…..just saying.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>