This hasn't really been considered.
My personal opinion on it is that XSL-T is awfully cumbersome to write for use as a query language. XUpdate is cumbersome enough and I actually find Transquery to be even worse. I'm not a particularly big fan of XQuery either, but the syntax is at least a little more friendly, even if still rather cumbersome. The fact that it reinvents the wheel is a separate issue.
I'd be happy to change my mind if an implementation were to emerge that proved usable.
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 04:59 PM, Peter Elliott wrote:
Hi all
just a little footnote to Murray's succinct summation of the XQuery situation (pardon the alliteration).
Evan Lenz has been working on a spec for what he's called Transquery - which aims to provide a means of manipulating xml database content using xslt.
more info is available at:
http://transquery.org
This is still in its early stages and most of the action has been taking place on the mail list. archives for those interested are at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/transquery-discuss
Has anyone here been looking at this with regards to possible use in/with xindice?
cheers peter
=============================== Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:46:08 -0800 Murray Altheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
{...... massive_snip .......] There's also XSLT itself as a mechanism for manipulating XML database content.
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