Hi, before I start my real message let me introduce myself and our company as we only recently joined the XML:DB initiative. My name is Irsan Widarto, I'm the co-founder and (as of March 1st.) VP of Product Strategy at X-Hive Corporation. We have devloped and are marketing X-Hive/DB, a database for XML documents. Our company is a (active) member of the W3C, our CTO -Jeroen van Rotterdam- is a member of the W3C DOM Working Group and we are true fans of open standards and have implemented several in our product (incl. DOM, XPath) or are planning to do so (XLink, XPointer). We hope to cooperate with you guys in the XML:DB initiative to establish the necessary XML database standards.
My excuses for this somewhat commercial blabla ;-), here is the real stuff: over the weekend a thread has started on the www-ql (Query Language) mailing list @w3.org regarding the absence of Update in the the new XQuery Draft (see: http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/). Jonathan Robie of Software AG and one of the writers of the XQuery spec has commented that Update is not a part of the XQuery requirements, therefore no effort has been taken so far in that area by the XQuery WG. But he also notes that there is a "definite interest in updates". To quote him even more: "the XQuery Editors believe that a syntax for update would be extremely useful, it is very unlikely that this would be supported by our algebra in Level 1, and one possibility is that this would appear as a non-normative appendix in XQuery". My questions are: - what is the status of XUpdate (excuses for my non-knowledge on this subject: I've only scanned archivedb.xmldb.org)? - how can we incorporate the work that has been done and/or will be done on XUpdate into the XQuery framework (or better: W3C XML Query framework as XQuery is only one of the XML Query initiatives)? Please let me know when (and if so: why) my questions are irrelevant as I've missed out on the discussions so far. Regards, Irsan Widarto. -- X-Hive Corporation e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +31 10 7108611 http://www.x-hive.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
