Re: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?

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Elliotte Harold <>
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"Roger L. Costello" <>
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2004-12-02T14:08:30Z
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Re: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?
Roger L. Costello wrote:

> Given this, I am wondering what niche XQuery is expecting to fill?  /Roger

A query language for native XML databases. It is allegedly more easy to 
optimize in such an environment than other languages, though this seems 
to be little more than a hypothesis at this point. Maybe it's true. 
maybe it isn't.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  
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