Re: [xsl] XSLT, Web applications, and "native XML databases"

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Houghton,Andrew wrote:

> > From: Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:17 PM
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT, Web applications, and "native XML databases"
> >
> > Andrew Welch wrote:
> > > Once XSLT can work directly directly against
> > > the database, XQuery's days could be numbered.
> >
> > Bit sweeping Andrew, but it always appeared as
> > a fairly natural extension to XSLT, to have
> > it operate on databases rather than files, to keep the dataheads
> > happy and answer the users who want to play
> > with dirty great datasets.
> >   I'm surprised it's not on the agenda for the WG
>
> If you really want XSLT to work directly against the database
> you could use collection() to return the documents.

false.

>  In Saxon,
> for example, you would have to write a CollectionURIResolver.
> I don't fully understand XMLDB, but it seems you could create
> an XMLDB CollectionURIResolver in Saxon and could access any
> XMLDB compatible database today.  Or write a specialized
> CollectionURIResolver to any existing database you needed to
> access.
>
> Andy.