Re: TMQL: Minor issue: Plurals for paths

On 04/05/2011 01:40 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote:

> As a developer of one toma implementation, having gained some experience
> in that process, I would go even a bit further:
> 
> Every attempt to create a semantic data query language that tries to
> resemble the syntax or structure of sql is flawed by design.

ah maybe I was a bit harsh with this statement, but what I really had in
mind is that there are different use-cases for something like tmql.

While it surely makes sense to use select expressions, especially for
users to retrieve direct results, it may be different in a programmatic
environment.

When looking at the old tmql draft of Robert Barta one can see that it
already supports what I tried to describe in my previous post: FLWR
expressions (in my case they would return json for example).

I certainly did not want to discredit any effort that people have put
into their different tmql specifications, especially because I found all
of them useful and capable to be used for development.

Thomas