[xquery-talk] [ANN] XQuery as a scripting language in IE

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

> I would have liked a reasonable XML notation for XQuery...

did you mean XQueryX (http://www.w3.org/TR/xqueryx/)

By the way - is it possible to have in xquery function similar to
XSLT`s doc(' ') which return XSLT itself, but for XQuery best case is
to return this in XML form - XQueryX)?

With best wishes,
Slav

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com> wrote:
>> I would have liked a reasonable XML notation for XQuery...
>
> I think this requirement will keep coming up. It's frankly embarrassing that
> in XProc, queries have to be escaped as CDATA. If we solved this problem,
> all sorts of opportunities would open up - XQuery used for assertions in
> XSD, XSD schemas embedded in XQuery modules, XQuery embedded in XSLT, XSLT
> embedded in XQuery, XQuery embedded in XForms.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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