Here’s a link to a story by Simon St. Laurent on XML.COM entitled The XQuery Chimera Takes Center Stage. The point of the story, and I think it’s a good one, is that “XML might actually finally change the web significantly — and soon.”
I think this is a very important aspect of both XQuery and MarkLogic that we really don’t push much in our marketing. XQuery doesn’t just change the database world. As implemented in a system like MarkLogic, it changes web application development as well. Expect to hear more from us about this in the future — and hopefully from Matt Turner in his Discovering XQuery blog as well.
Here are some highlights/quotes from the story:
- “XQuery … brings XML databases to a wider audience”
- “XQuery has pretty much always been about more than XML.”
- “As more and more applications take advantage of XML to send documents from place to place, there’s a growing appeal to keeping these documents in their original form, or something close to it.”
- “Unlike other XML specifications, this one seems to coming to fruition at just about the time people are realizing they need it.”
- “Where traditional scripting languages have split querying from the application and presentation logic, XQuery lets developers combine the query with the result generation.”
- “I do expect … that as developers start using some XQuery, they’ll push more and more of the work into that [XQuery] layer.”
- “XQuery itself isn’t about the Web — it’s about collecting information from various sources. However, it also provides templating facilities like those of XSLT, and is perfectly capable of generating XML or HTML.”
- “XML and XQuery seem likely to drive the Web and Publishing closer together as the different forms of distributing content become a secondary detail, not something that separates industries.”
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