[xquery-talk] [Announce] XQilla version 1.1.0 released

[Jonathan Robie]

John Snelson wrote:
> Jonathan Robie wrote:
>> For evaluating the path expressions, I agree with you. In general, 
>> though, I don't think that XSLT templates that are triggered based on 
>> recursive descent in document order is as easily optimized as XQuery 
>> FLWOR expressions.
>
> I agree, of course - it's not as easily optimized, but it's still 
> possible to some extent or other.

Sure - and we may never know to what extent, because I think the vendors 
who focus on fast queries for indexed stores are using XQuery for this now.

Jonathan