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Re: XQL-project status report
Steve Tinney wrote:
> Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> >What about [the prior XQL workshop paper].
> >Do you expect the XQL syntax will change that much?
>
> Difficult to predict, I suppose. Not sure if it's relevant, but XSL
> Transformations certainly changed significantly during their
> development. There is probably nothing to prevent XQL changing
> radically either.
I think that future W3C XML query language (XQL ?) will be based on XPath,
XPath also used in XSLT and in XPointer, so it's good to reuse it in XQL
too.
The eXcelon XML Data Server developers
switched from XQL to XPath + XSLT + their proprietary XML-Update language
in their new beta, they still supporting for backward compatibility older
W3C-QL '98 XQL.
They suggesting to use XPath like "WHERE" clause in SQL and XSLT like
"SELECT", "SORT BY" and "ORDER BY" ...
We also need let to know W3C that there is need in standard XML UPDATE
language,
or at least enter this capabilities into future W3C XML Query Language
Summary:
I think we should start implementing XPath, because for sure future
W3C XML Query Language will be based on it.
Zvi