Re: [xml] XQuery

["Elvis Stansvik" <elvstone gmail com>]

2008/9/25 Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:06 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> [...]
>> XQuery doesn't make that much sense when playing with a single document,
>
> There are several implementations of XQuery that work on a single
> document and that people say are useful.
>
>
>> my feeling is that it's more fit for a set/database of documents,
>> i.e. libxml2 might be used to implement an XQuery engine on top of
>> some database but just for within libxml2 it's not worth it.
>
> As it stands today I don't know how good a fit libxml would be --
> for XPath 2, nodes are typed, so you'd wanting to make some changes.
> Certainly you could use libxml's XMLReader API to build data model
> instances, though, and/or tie in to the W3C XML Schema validation.
>
> dbxml (which uses Quilla) is a viable alternative for many people,
> and the FLWOR Foundation is funding another, both in C++.  If you
> are doing work in KDE, there's also an implementation from TrollTech
> (Nokia now).

Just to clarify, you need not be doing work in KDE to use the
implementation in Qt. Qt != KDE. In fact you could use just the QtXml
and QtCore modules of Qt, and not have to link to all of the Qt
library.

Elvis

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