[xquery-talk] here it comes, yet another version of XQuery and/or JSONiq

[Ihe Onwuka]

They didn't know about JSONiq

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:48 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> Actually, that’s GREAT news.
>
> This shows that they have some common sense, and some good taste  :-))
> (unlike the CouchDB people :-)
>
> Now, I cannot stop of asking myself…. why did they feel the need to
> “cover” the power
> of XQuery with a home-grown/proprietary (AND very limited) XML/JSON
> mapping syntax ….!???
>
> Any ideas !?
>
> Best regards
> Dana
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> On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com> wrote:
>
> Actually I think Mulesoft is using Saxon underneath the hood. (Someone
> correct me if I’m wrong).
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
> On 10 Jun 2015, at 16:42, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:
>
> It seems that they made an honest attempt to implement XQuery.
>
> But in the world where there are so many good open source ones, why would
> they want to
> do yet another one ?
>
> Who knows.
>
> Truth is: doing a good implementation of XQuery is not immediate, and it’s
> not for the fainted
> of heart, either …..
>
> So if they abandoned because they weren’t able to finish the XQuery, or
> make it fast enough
> … this wouldn’t surprise me.
>
> Dana
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> On Jun 10, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Somebody in that company has.
>
> http://blogs.mulesoft.com/mule-3-6-xml-xpath-xslt-xquery3/
>
> I believe I posted this to the list before.
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> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:00 AM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com>
> wrote:
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>> Ihe,
>>
>> I did.
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>> But honestly, I am very scared of the real answer: they’ve never heard of
>> XQuery, XSLT, or JSONiq….
>>
>> Dana
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>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why don't you ask them?
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>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:07 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> https://developer.mulesoft.com/docs/display/37M1/Overview
>>>
>>> Why do people have so much fun reinventing stuff that was DEFINITELY not
>>> fun to specify in the first
>>> place !???
>>>
>>> I will never understand how those guys think….
>>>
>>> Dana
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