The 56th CACA Seminar

Time:

November 5th (Monday) 2001, 13:00 -- 15:00

Place:

Seminar Room D , Building 6 of Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo
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Tentative Program:

• Philip Wadler (Avaya Labs)

  Et tu XML? The fall of the relational empire.

  Three decades past, the relational empire conquered the hierarchical hegemony. Today, an upstart challenges the relational empire's dominance, threatening the return of hierarchy. XML is Lisp's bastard nephew, with uglier syntax and no semantics. Yet XML is poised to enable the creation of a Web of data that dwarfs anything since the Library at Alexandria. This talk examines the design of XQuery, the W3C standard query language for XML, and related standards such as XML Schema.