(2003-07-08) Tim Bray Graph Query Gui

Tim Bray walks down memory lane. I look at the recent drafts coming out of the XPath and XQuery group, and for damn sure these things are going to give the programmers of the world the tools they need to pick apart XML instances and retrieve from XML databases (in fact, the programmers are getting way more than they need, but that's another debate). But I suspect the number of people who are going to be able to use XPath/XQuery directly is even smaller than the number who can do SQL, which is already a pretty small number. So we're obviously going to need some sort of user interface (GUI) for ordinary people to use. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Pat Motif had some useful ideas to contribute to that design process.