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Re: [xsl] Argument on XML

2014-08-18 19:35:27
Thank you wizards of xsl mailing list.

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On Aug 18, 2014, at 7:40 PM, "Liam R E Quin liam(_at_)w3(_dot_)org" 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:58:37 -0000
"L2L 2L emanuelallen(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com" 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

So I'm on a forum being school by some wizard. I don't know how to respond 
to this:

XQuery to my knowledge exceed SQL very!

It has different strengths.

There actually _are_ large Web sites using XQuery in the backend, sometimes 
in conjunction with relational databases. There's no point in naming them to 
someone who has already decided the answers based on false premises, nothing 
could be better than his/her favourite technology!

It is worth noting that XQuery/XML-native databases do not read XML in for 
each query any more than relational databases read CSV files off disk for 
each SQL query.

Note also that IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server all have XQuery 
support (to varying extents and in varying ways).


By the way, the XML standard was introduced in 1996. PHP, let alone SQL, is 
older than XML.

The XQuery specification was edited by the co-inventor of SQL, and XML is 
based on SGML, which has a heritage going back to the 1960s. So?

Liam

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