Re: Revised proposal for QUERY DTD

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Gerhard Dieringer wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> In April 2000 Vivien Malerba sent a proposal to use XML to manipulate queries to this list.
> After asking for her agreement, I made some changes and extensions to the DTD.
> I added support for joins, unions and ordering and changed the names of the comparison
> operators and some child elements to attributes.
> I made this last change because I don't like constructions like <CONST>123</CONST>.
> IMO it's more natural to make it an empty tag with an attribute <CONST value="123"/>.
> 
> Of course the DTD is not finished now. There should be support for creating, dropping
> (changing)? tables, views, sequences, (triggers, stored procedures)?, more support for
> subqueries etc.
> 
Yes, the XML query object should provide support for all basic SQL
statements.

> Vivien asked me to send the revised DTD to this list for discussion.
> 
As I haven't all this very clear, I agree with what Vivien and you
decide.