Hi Toni,
thanks for this step. You can be certain to have my support on using XQuery together with XSL if necessary for interchange of query documents. I'm not so sure whether it will be sufficient for our needs, but doing something completely outside XML would be a bad start (to say the least).
Andreas
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:46, Tony Linde wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Linde [mailto:ael-at-star.le.ac.uk]
> Sent: 16 February 2003 12:16
> To: 'Registry_Ivoa_List'
> Subject: Query message format
>
>
> I've just proposed to the AstroGrid group that we base the format of
> messages containing queries (eg from client, portal or workflow
> component to registry or dataset) on the W3C XQuery standard:
>
> http://forum.astrogrid.org/read.php?TID=314&page=#971
>
> I know there's no way that IVOA could determine a standard in time for
> AstroGrid (we need it now) but I wanted to find out if anyone knew of
> any 'just cause or impediment' why we should not use XQuery.
>
> Note that I'm not proposing XQuery as the Astronomical Query Language
> (ie something that an astronomer would type into a query processor) but
> as the format in which such a query would be passed from one component
> to another.
>
> Have a read of my proposal and let us know if there are any strong
> objections. We'll add any comments here to those of the AstroGrid group
> in the forum when our Technical Support Panel discusses the issue on
> 27th Feb.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony.
>
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