A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 13 October, 2002.
The TAG back on XQuery vs W3C XML Schemafrom Eric van der Vlist at 08:42, 13 OctTim Bray has suggested again to take the question of the dependency between XQuery 1.0 (and XPath 2.0) and W3C XML Schema as an issue for the TAG and proposed that "XQuery should be decoupled from XML Schema."
Generators Python 2.2 and XMLfrom Eric van der Vlist at 08:29, 13 OctIn this article on DeveloperWorks, Uche Ogbuji shows how Python 2.2 generators can be used to facilitate the processing of DOM trees.