Re: Xquery might have some things right

"Hiran Chaudhuri" <hiran.chaudhuri_at_lrz.fh-muenchen.de> wrote in message news:c37lhc$bno$1_at_wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de...
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> "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ebr5c.104974$Wa.53857_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > "Hiran Chaudhuri" <hiran.chaudhuri_at_lrz.fh-muenchen.de> wrote:
> > I have called it RDBMS portal software as its whole function is simply
> > to send RPC calls to the RDBMS and to (generically) handle the output
> > data sets returned from the RDBMS executing such calls.
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> This is an excellent idea. And I have seen middleware that uses
'persistent
> message queues' that exactly store the messsages in a database.
>
> But back to the thread: I belive XML does not just present new solutions
to
> old ideas. It solves some problems, which we would have to deal with
> otherwise. I do not claim that they are not solveable - if they were, XML
> also could not do the trick. But as it does, we can focus our thoughts to
> higher levels of abstraction, and wide-spread interoperability comes into
> reach.
>
> It's a bit like the first graphical user interfaces. In the beginning
noone
> really needed them, today there are user interfaces noone would ever dream
> of using on a TTY....

I see no solution to anything in XML that was not already solved years ago. Received on Fri Mar 19 2004 - 02:06:45 CET