On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:37:50 -0700 Tom Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yesterday, I threw together some ideas for a quick and dirty extension > of the XUpdate language that would provide support for relational > queries against multiple collections. It would be a easy to use, > relatively easy to implement alternative to XQuery, which becomes more > of a monstrosity every time I look at it. > > Like I said, I threw it together quickly, so it's nowhere close to > usable. I'd very much like feedback for refining it more. > > The file XSelect.txt is attached. Hi Tom, thanks for your input. Currently I'm very busy with a commercial project. Therefore I can't give an answer to your proposal but I appreciate your activity. There are many interested people on this mailing list, so maybe others will have some time to discuss your ideas. I generally like and accept your extension. Your <foreach> element leads me to an issue of XUpdate which is still open: conditional processing. I'm not sure how important such elements (<if>, <elseif>, <foreach>, ..) are, but I would like to see them as a part of the XUpdate spec. Ideas? There is a growing community using XUpdate so I would love to see some progress. Kindest regards, Lars -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
