Hi Jonathan

This is interesting, but also what worries me (and has worried me all the time.)

If the spec doesnt take care of Update, vendors will implement their own syntax & semantics,
 and there will be no standard.

Then XQuery will _not_ become the SQL of XML.

JJ

>  -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>  Fra: Jonathan Robie 
>  [mailto:jonathan.robie@[...].com]
>  Sendt: 1. maj 2002 16:25
>  Til: Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI
>  Cc: xml-dev@[...].org
>  Emne: Re: SV: [xml-dev] New XSLT, XPath, and XQuery drafts - but still
>  no update?
>  
>  
>  At 04:08 PM 5/1/2002 +0200, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote:
>  >Hi Jonathan
>  >
>  >Nice work, but still no update (issue 164) as far as I can see?
>  
>  No, no updates, and I doubt that updates will be in XQuery 1.0.
>  
>  As before, several vendors are implementing similar versions 
>  of updates 
>  based on an early proposal. The best formulation of that 
>  proposal is now a 
>  thesis done by Patrick Lehti:
>  
>  http://www.lehti.de/beruf/diplomarbeit.pdf
>  
>  There should be some public proposal based on that, but I 
>  doubt that it 
>  will be part of the XQuery 1.0 Rec per se.
>  
>  Jonathan
>  
>  

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