Re: Xquery might have some things right
Date: 3 Mar 2004 08:16:22 -0800
Message-ID: <c0e3f26e.0403030816.643f1d0b_at_posting.google.com>
"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:<c23mr0$2dd$1_at_news.netins.net>...
> You don't see a reasonable, though unbearably slow, progression from data
> exchange:
> 1. by putting data in "card columns" then virtual card columns distributed
> on mag tape
> 2. then ftp'ing or e-mailing comma-quote files
> 3. to now including the metadata for the data within the document itself
>
> It is a small step, but one that will make a significant contribution to
> software application integration, methinks.
> Cheers! --dawn
Leaving aside what is really gained by the "self-documentation" (if the file contains a <FOO> tag, and I don't know what a FOO corresponds to in my world...), it is a big jump from your step 3 to:
4. call your data exchange documents a DATABASE and use a procedural row-by-row file reader called XQuery instead of SQL. Received on Wed Mar 03 2004 - 17:16:22 CET