At 02:36 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>At 02:16 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
>>Regardless, the best way to get a feel for what makes XQuery useful and
>>attractive may be to download one of the more complete implementations
>>and play with it. It takes time to grasp a new technology. And then
>>perhaps the next time around we can discuss XQuery in terms of the
>>language itself, with sample queries and concrete scenarios.
>
>Sorry Jonathan, but at this point I'm not in the mood to play with
>700-page specifications that do both more and less than I need. (Yes, I'd
>like update too.) I'll take another look at XQuery when it clearly
>presents a subset for work with well-formed XML only, without inflicting
>typed expectations on that understanding. I'm not willing to waste my
>time playing in toxic turf controlled by an organization in which I have
>little faith.
OK, but in that case, please don't waste too much of our time with expert
opinions on a technology you haven't taken the time to learn.
Jonathan
