Re: Xquery might have some things right

In the last exciting episode, "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote:
> There is one huge deficiency (OK, more than one, but one I'll point
> out) with XQuery compared to SQL -- XQuery is a read-only language
> at this point, although update standards are being addressed.

The deficiencies surely look like they are more enormous than any _conceivable_ merits.

• If Microsoft is promoting it that can't conceivably be a good thing.

  That's actually a really useful property; "Microsoft Inside" is a   terrific warning label.

• It uses XML, the only thing that could have been worse than SGML, which was a text parsing system designed by people that didn't want to understand the theory of language parsers.
• It depends on "success" in the shifting sands that are the foundation for XML "standards." Just look at the set of "standards" being published under the auspices of the W3C.

Looks like a futile boondoggle to me...

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