XML query language

[Mark Birbeck]

Has anyone looked at the fragment proposals for this? I think it is
ideal because it allows you to return the context of the nodes that make
up your results, as well as the results. If you add functionality for
multiple fragments (which the initial suggestions don't have) then it
works very well, allowing nodes to be returned that come from very
different contexts.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oren Ben-Kiki 
> Sent: 30 March 1999 13:58
> To: XML List
> Subject: Fw: XML query language
> 
> 
> Paul Janssens <paul.janssens at skynet.be> wrote:
> >I think (iii)
> (results should be XML)
> >should not be a requirement of an XML query language. The
> >result of a query  could be a vector of tuples of pointers to the
> >individual matches. Whatever needs to be done with that output can be
> >done in a layer above that.
> 
> I fail to see the benfit in inventing a new format for query 
> results. First,
> a set of tuples with pointers, or whatever else, can be 
> easily expressed in
> XML. Second, if one wants to obtain 'pointers to the output', 
> then it should
> be a simple matter of constructing in the result a pointer to 
> the matched
> tree (<A href="..."> or something) instead of the matched tree itself.
> 
> AFAIK all XML QL proposals produce XML as output.
> 
> >Just because SQL mixes content with style
> >doesn't mean an XML query language should.
> 
> You lost me here; this is the first time I've heard that SQL 
> has anything to
> do with style. The result of an SQL query is a table and is typically
> accessed via some programming API which has nothing to do 
> with presentation.
> I agree that an XML query should do the same thing - that is, 
> create an XML
> tree as a result without worrying about presentation. The 
> fact that I think
> that _the transformational part_ of XSL should do this is perfectly
> consistent, since I see this part as being a general 
> independent mechanism
> and not just a "style" language.
> 
> Share & Enjoy,
> 
>     Oren Ben-Kiki
> 
> 
> 
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