RE: [xsl] XQuery (was Designs for XSLT functions)

[Dylan Walsh <Dylan.Walsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Michael Kay replied:
> > I think XQuery and XSLT/XPath are on convergent paths: they are
> > tackling the
> > same problems, and if each follows its natural course they will
> > end up with
> > broadly equivalent functionality. But they are coming from different
> > traditions, and as a result they currently have different strengths and
> > weaknesses, as well as different syntactic appearance.
> 
Forgive my ignorance, but does XQuery provide queries across a set of XML
documents? In other words you have a 'database' of XML documents and it
returns all the documents or part of all the documents matching some
criteria. If it works on basically one document (I'm not counting opening
explicitly named documents using the document() function or similar), then
it is less useful than I would have expected.


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