Great article "XQuery from the Experts: Influences on the design of XQuery" by Don Chamberlin. It's an excerpt from a chapter of "XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language" book. Good reading. Why relational data model doesn't fit XML, why SQL can't be used to
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That's a milestone in XSLT technology life - the most famous Java XSLT processor Saxon goes commercial. Here is what Michael Kay (author of Saxon and XSLT 2.0 editor) writes: In March 2004 I founded Saxonica Limited to provide ongoing development and support of Saxon as a commercial venture. My
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Rick Schaut writes about stupidity of the XOR trick these days: So, not only is the XOR swap stupid because it's obscure, it's stupid because, with modern optimizing compilers, the eventual result often ends up being contrary to the intended result of using the coding trick in the first place
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