Re: [xml] XQuery

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 09:13:26AM -0700, Micah Dubinko wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > Does libxml2 have APIs for XQuery?     
> >
> > no, out of scope IMHO.
> >
> >   
>
> Out of curiosity, do you consider XQuery out of scope because of limited  
> resources, or do you have deeper reservations? XQuery seems to me like  
> it would be a great fit for libxml2.

  Hi Micah,

good question, I should have givem more details.
Independantly of the limited resources which are a very real problem too,
XQuery doesn't make that much sense when playing with a single document,
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.

  but I may be wrong about it, I could ask Jonathan if needed :-)

Daniel

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