David, What is not clear in my mind is how is XQuery positioned against XSLT. There seems to be quite an overlap between them.
Is XQuery supposed to replace XSLT in the future? Thanks, Yuri > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Document updates (Was: Extension Element to Optimize > Large XML > transformations) > > > Yuri de Wit writes (about XUpdate): > >This new language being defined is supposed to describe > document updates > >as opposed to document transformations. The key thing here is the > >assumption that the source document is the same as the > result document. > > I think the W3C intends to address this under XQuery rather than XSLT. > Notice item 3.2.5 at: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-requirements > To people with SQL heritage, that probably makes good sense. > .................David Marston >
