Re: [xsl] Argument on XML

Subject: Re: [xsl] Argument on XML
From: "L2L 2L emanuelallen@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:35:18 -0000
Thank you wizards of xsl mailing list.

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> On Aug 18, 2014, at 7:40 PM, "Liam R E Quin liam@xxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:58:37 -0000
> "L2L 2L emanuelallen@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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> Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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