Re: Xquery might have some things right

"Hiran Chaudhuri" <hiran.chaudhuri_at_lrz.fh-muenchen.de> wrote in message news:c37mit$ca5$1_at_wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de...
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> "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:29J5c.23$YU2.103_at_news.oracle.com...
> > "Hiran Chaudhuri" <hiran.chaudhuri_at_lrz.fh-muenchen.de> wrote in message
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> > > But as it does, we can focus our thoughts to
> > > higher levels of abstraction, and wide-spread interoperability comes
> into
> > > reach.
> >
> > CORBA deja vu?
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> Is CORBA that flexible? How come it is not that widely used then?

No, XML is doomed to repeat CORBA failure.

> And still, it is not the only use for XML.

I don't see any utility for XML beyond cutting and pasting quotes into usenet messages like this:
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</quote> Received on Tue Mar 16 2004 - 21:19:34 CET