Re: Pizza Example

"Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ea_cc.9281$ZP5.754_at_newssvr32.news.prodigy.com...
> "Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
> news:fZZcc.63675$Hq4.4106302_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> > Eric Kaun wrote:
> > > "Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
> > > news:3DYcc.63541$vB5.4194342_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> > >
> > >>Eric Kaun wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>3. As another example, XQuery, may have some accidental incidences of
> > >>>closure, but is primarily a reporting tool, in that its output is
text
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > >>>needn't be valid XML or anything else in particular.
> > >>
> > >>?? Are you sure you are not confusing XSL and XQuery?
> > >
> > > I'll have to find my source - are you saying the output of an XQuery
> > > expression is always well-formed XML? I didn't realize that was the
> case,
> > > and thought I remember reading something specifically to the
contrary...
> >
> > Strictly speaking it isn't, because the output is a sequence of items
> > and therefore not always a single document, and the notion of
> > well-formedness is only defined for full documents. But apart from that
> > all fragments in the result always satisfy the requirements for
> > well-formedness for fragments in documents. This is so because they will
> > always belong to the XPath/XQuery data model, which doesn't allow
> > anything that isn't well-formed by definition. You can check the W3C
> > documents if you don't believe me. :-)
> >
> > -- Jan Hidders
>
> I thought that the output was perhaps a function of "nodes", but since
nodes
> can be attributes and elements (at least), that it ended up allowing
fairly
> arbitrary results. I'll check my docs... it's not that I don't believe
you,
> it just doesn't accord with what I remember.

What you might be thinking of is that XQuery queries are not, themselves, XML documents ??
--dawn Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 23:40:44 CEST