On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:10:07 +0100 "Irsan Widarto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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)? Well the current spec is stable (afaik). And there were discussion about future extension. (see the archive) It IS active but so far nobody found the time to make a proposal. (except of Toms ideas) > - 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)? This is an interesting question and I don't know an answer so far. :-) The working draft available at xmldb.org was/is a straight forward solution that works. The Infozone/Prowler project uses Lexus (XUpdate implementation) heavily. > Please let me know when (and if so: why) my questions are irrelevant as I've > missed out on the discussions so far. In fact, these questions are very interesting and I would like to know what other subscribers think. IMO, the discussions about XQuery is very related to XML data bases even if the XQuery 'project' is maintained by a W3C working group. 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 adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
