[Fwd: Implementation of XML QUERY]

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@east.sun.com>]

FYI,

In my quest for query experts and their opinions I came across Chetan on
the xml-dist-app list. Coincidently, it seems that they are discussing
this issue of late.

Please note that ease of use by application developers was our #1
requirement.

Chetan, if you care to discuss this issue with the team you will have to
sign up with the team mailing list at:

    http://www.ebxml.org/participate.htm

--
Regards,
Farrukh

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• From: "chetan patel" <chetan@pybiz.com>
• To: "Farrukh Najmi" <Farrukh.Najmi@east.sun.com>
• Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:52:01 -0800

hello farrukh,

we tried to use XML query at HP on their ESpeak next generation technology.

The biggest problem we found was that it is not very easy for application
level developers to rapidly learn and start using.

Plus even with XML query, most developers tend to want to do relational
kinds of queries.

another issue is that there arent very good tools to help generate XML
queries or to parse them easily. Whereas for SQL there are lots of tools

With SQL, most application developers are familiar with it and can quickly
use it to query the XML content

just some preliminary thoughts.

hope this helps

regards

Chetan Patel
PyBiz, Inc
408 733 8463
www.pybiz.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrukh Najmi" <Farrukh.Najmi@east.sun.com>
To: "chetan patel" <chetan@pybiz.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Implementation of XML QUERY


> Chetan,
>
> I would be curiuos what your thoughts are on the use of an XML query
syntax as
> compared to SQL query syntax when querying against XML content. What are
the
> tradeoffs?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
> chetan patel wrote:
>
> > hello massimliano,
> >
> > I am not aware of other XML Query engines.  We recently released an SQL
like
> > query language to be able to query XML documents.  It is SQL but with
some
> > XPath like extension to allow specifying sub tags to search on
> >
> > You can check it out at http://www.xdfind.com.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > chetan patel
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <mdirusso@libero.it>
> > To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:47 AM
> > Subject: Implementation of XML QUERY
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I would like to know if there is any means to make queries on XML
files
> > > with a language which can overcome the limitations of XPath syntax. Is
> > > any XML Query engine available at the moment, for example? If no,
could
> > > you direct me to other implementations?
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > > Massimliano Di Russo
> > > BE
> > >
> > >
>
>
>

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