XQuery as a general data processing language WAS: [xquery-talk]
XQuery and Web 2.0
John Snelson
john.snelson at oracle.com
Mon Apr 28 13:32:29 PDT 2008
Peter Coppens wrote:
> Anyway, XQuery was designed
> to 'work' on the XQuery/XPath data model and I don't believe anywhere
> anytime soon your 'typical' developer/architect/designer will choose XDM
> as its main representation of information to implement (transactional
> business) logic upon. If XQuery has the ambition to become a general
> (data) processing language it will have to integrate (or work)
> seamlessly with <your preferred oo programming language> object model.
I guess that depends on what data you have coming in and going out. A
large and increasing number of applications have XML/HTML both coming in
and going out. In this circumstance it makes a great deal of sense to
write business logic in XQuery - and I've seen customers who are doing
exactly that.
John
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