Re: [gnome-db] Xql queries

[Santi Camps <santi gnome-db org>]

> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:34, Santi Camps wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have some doubts about xql queries.  Which is the status of this
> > issue? Is it something to be implemented in each provider? Or is it
> > working yet? I think that is not used to execute commands.
> > 
> it should be working, but we've never come up to actually use it :-( But
> it should work.
> 
> > I want to know if I can use it in the libgda-report, or if it's better
> > to store queries as sql and use libgda/libsql to check field names (in
> > fact, that's all I need, but xql seems a pretty way to store provider
> > independent queries).
> > 
> the best way would be to allow for both XQL and SQL queries. So, I would
> add support for both, since SQL is also useful in some cases. But, yes,
> definitely, XQL should be supported in the reporting stuff. In fact, the
> DTD references the XQL DTD, as far as I remember.

Ok, then I will try to add support for both SQL and XQL queries.  

Cheers

Santi Camps