RE: [xml-dev] After XQuery, are we done?

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Hunsberger, Peter <>
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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <>, Gavin Thomas Nicol <>, XML Developers List <>
Date
2004-10-25T17:39:30Z
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RE: [xml-dev] After XQuery, are we done?
Bullard, Claude L (Len) <> writes:
> 
> I agree with that.  It does have a graph model which is 
> what I thought the question was.

Nah, that would be too easy... :-)
 
> Overloading schemas?  It raises the archforms question again, 
> but the declarative techniques were simple.
> 
> We're noodling at solutions for which I'm not yet convinced 
> there is a market, but this is XML-Dev and we are supposed 
> to do that. 
 
Ahh, good, I thought perhaps I was just suffering from the effects of
too much caffeine and not enough breakfast just before rushing off to
lunch:  I'll take standardized universal knowledge interchange and a
tuna salad on wheat berry please....

> len
> 
> 
> From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:]
> 
> Well RDF seems to be the answer that keeps popping up in this 
> thread and as I've said, I do think it's part of the answer.  
> I'm just not sure it's the complete answer.  You've still got 
> the problem of addressability which then drags in ontologies 
> or link bases.  As soon as you drag in either of those you've 
> got the problem of query mechanisms and given the current 
> state of the art and the amount of machinery you need to 
> manage and move around to handle all that I'm not sure you 
> have anything approaching a universal solution?
> 
> 
>