Whence XQL?

Matthew Sergeant (EML) Matthew.Sergeant at eml.ericsson.se
Thu Mar 25 13:01:56 GMT 1999


My problem with XML-QL was their use of tag minimisation (their proprietary
</> syntax) means you can't parse XML-QL with an XML parser. That's foolish
IMHO - if you're practically using XML already, why not reap the benefits?

Anyway, there's an implementation of XML-QL in my directory on CPAN for perl
users, which needs fixing up a little bit, but it's quite usable (if a
little slow). It facilitates the use of perl's regexp syntax for queries as
well as the system used by XML-QL, which makes it nice and powerful...

Matt.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roger L. Costello [SMTP:costello at mitre.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 25, 1999 11:58 AM
> To:	Ed Howland
> Cc:	'xml-dev at ic.ac.uk'; 'xsl-list at mulberrytech.com'
> Subject:	Re: Whence XQL?
> 
> Have you looked at XML-QL?  I have been playing around with this XML
> query tool for a few weeks.  It's quite nice.  It allows you to specify
> the grammer of extracted data, query multiple XML documents, etc.  See:
> <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/xmlql>  /Roger
> 
> 

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