StylusStudio interviews Priscilla Walmsley
Ivan Pedruzzi of Stylus Studio interviewed Priscilla (of “Definitive XML Schema” fame) on XQuery as part of their series on XML and XQuery interviews and articles that include interviews with Michael Kay, Jason Hunter (MarkLogic) and Mike Olson (Sleepycat) (I may comment one or the other over time :-)).
Priscilla is an outsider to the working group, which gives this interview a more objective slant than if Ivan would have interviewed a member of the working group. Thus, I am happy to see, how Priscilla focuses on some of the interesting aspects of XQuery, such as the ability to raise errors on path expressions (due to the static typing), the integration of typed and untyped data etc.
One small nitpick is that the demo'ed XQuery support in Oracle at XML 2004 was showing a prototype and not Oracle 9i (more on the XML 2004 conference hopefully later).
Since she was plugging her upcoming XQuery book, I hope that Michael Brundage will update his XQuery book, so that we will have the option of choosing among two (or more) good XQuery books in a year from now (and the XQuery from the Expert book will get a sales boost as well :-).