RE: [xsl] XSLT & SQL

> > Someone told me that he can do *any* XSLT transformation in SQL.
> 
> Otherwise known as Church's thesis (or following Church, Turing
> completeness). Any computer language that has arithmetic and enough
> memory at its disposal can emulate any other. It's just not always very
> convenient to program everything in a turing machhine.

But there's the rub; SQL 92 and 96 own their own are not Turing complete...
One of the design objectives for SQL 3 was that it be Turing complete, but I
don't know if this was ever met?


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RE: Re: [xsl] XSLT & SQL, (continued) Michael Kay - Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:30:52 +0100 Christopher Dix - Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:59:26 -0400 Michael Kay - Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:49:31 +0100 David Carlisle - Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:17:09 +0100 Hunsberger, Peter - Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:06:20 -0500 <= David Carlisle - Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:44:02 +0100 Jim Melton - Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:03:14 -0600 Charles Knell - Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:38:42 -0700 David Carlisle - Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:06:25 +0100

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