Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.frii.net!newsfeed.frii.net!news.compaq.com!uunet!sac.uu.net!dfw.uu.net!ash.uu.net!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!gazette.almaden.ibm.com!not-for-mail From: "Paul Vernon" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: XML extensions to SQL Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 23:17:04 +0100 Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <3EA04B14.1CFB@rswheeldon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 9.169.206.10 X-Trace: gazette.almaden.ibm.com 1050865589 76146 9.169.206.10 (20 Apr 2003 19:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@almaden.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:06:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.theory:25922 X-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:36:42 MST (news.easynews.com) "Mikito Harakiri" wrote in message news:kwZna.7$bd1.141@news.oracle.com... > Next, do SQL users > really want adding XML mess into already messy language? Speaking personally, if it hastens the end of SQL as the predominate relational style language then I'm all for it ;-) On the other hand, I'm sure that the XML stuff raises interesting questions and provides some interesting answers, albeit with some percentage of both being wrong-headed. Also, if I happen to get some features, like maybe multiple-update or say better optimised recursive queries, that bring some parts of SQL and SQL implementations closer to a relational ideal, then I would take some solace. Regards Paul Vernon