Great set of problems but not sure why you call them XQuery - some XPath perhaps. Good trigger for me to write XQuery solutions running http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/UnitTest/runTests.xql?testName=Basic%20XQuery%20Examples
Jacob, XQuery is a full W3C standard language built on XPath 2.0. TSQL seems to provide some elements of XPath 1.0, but take a look at the code in the link above to see what XQuery really is like- and weep at the difference between it and TSQL :-)
Chris, The purpose of this tutorial is to help SQL Server developers so that they can write XQuery against XML datatype columns and variables. I wanted this series to cover whatever XQuery functionality implemented in TSQL so far.
I agree with you that there are several stuff that are missing. But sooner or later we will have them.
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Jacob
ReplyDeleteGreat set of problems but not sure why you call them XQuery - some XPath perhaps. Good trigger for me to write XQuery solutions running
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/UnitTest/runTests.xql?testName=Basic%20XQuery%20Examples
and into XQuery Wikibook
Chris Wallace
Well, I dont think I can really separate XPath and XQuery. The term "XQuery" seems to be more familiar with SQL Server developers.
ReplyDeleteJacob,
ReplyDeleteXQuery is a full W3C standard language built on XPath 2.0. TSQL seems to provide some elements of XPath 1.0, but take a look at the code in the link above to see what XQuery really is like- and weep at the difference between it and TSQL :-)
Chris,
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of this tutorial is to help SQL Server developers so that they can write XQuery against XML datatype columns and variables. I wanted this series to cover whatever XQuery functionality implemented in TSQL so far.
I agree with you that there are several stuff that are missing. But sooner or later we will have them.