Re: A good argument for XML

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:06:37 GMT, Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:39:56 GMT, Jan Hidders
>> <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote:

[snip]

>>>From a practical point of view the SQL/XML and XQuery approaches will
>>>probably have industrial strength implementations soon that you can
>>>actually use. I know for example that DataDirect Technologies has an

>> Real Soon Now, eh?
>
>Yep. Right now it's still in beta but we already had the honour of using
>it and as someone who does research on query language implementation I
>can confirm that it is already quite mature.

     "still in beta" and "already quite mature" are not synonyms.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Thu Jul 14 2005 - 02:27:42 CEST