<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 21, 2016, at 11:49 AM, daniela florescu <<a href="mailto:dflorescu@me.com" class="">dflorescu@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">My 2 cents would have been to release and not mention anything about XQuery or JSONiq</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Ihe, a more serious answer to your comment above.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>XQuery was designed and adapted to query XML (together with XML Schema and the rest of the XML world, etc, etc)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>JSONiq was designed to query JSON, and only JSON.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>======</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Unlike them, PythonQL is not attached to any particular data model or data format. I can query anything that can be </div><div>represented in the Python structures, e.g. tables, XML, JSON. It’s not data model specific.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>What those three languages have in common is the use of the semantics of the FLWOR expression (not the syntax!).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The FLWOR expression is a general purpose data comprehension programing paradigm, not related to any data model or </div><div>data format.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> SELECT-FROM-WHERE in SQL is just a simpler case of FLWOR expression. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Dana</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>