Re: XQuery Update Facility Working Drafts

Michael Rys wrote:
> You should use a mechanism
> that is specific to your environment to insert documents. E.g. in SQL
> you would use the SQL INSERT or UPDATE statement to insert the XML
> document into a cell...

Unless, of course, you don't use a relational database and SQL/XML. It 
is desirable to have a standard way to add and remove documents from a 
collection - since there isn't currently a way to do this if you aren't 
using SQL/XML. in my opinion, this is a major ommission from the current 
XQuery Update specification. A lot of people out there are aiming to use 
XQuery as their only database manipulation language.

John

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