Subject: RE: [xsl] XQuery (was Designs for XSLT functions) From: DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:48:41 -0000 |
Michael Kay > > 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 I understand the thinking correctly, it is that a database would be > represented by a virtual document containing a list of the instance > documents, identified by URL; and then yes, you should be > able to search > this entire collection. Of course XSLT has that capability > too (in theory): > the real challenge is designing optimizers that can take advantage of > persistent indexes, etc. I thought query could operate across/with (whatever the expression is) more than one document root, which I believed to be a limitation of XSLT? DaveP XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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