[xquery-talk] [xml-dev] Query 3.1 vs. JSONiq WAS Re: MarkLogic using JSONiq for processing JSON ?

[William Candillon]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Adam Retter <adam.retter at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> To answer your last question, there is a typescript implementation of
>> JSONiq that started here: https://github.com/wcandillon/jsoniq.
>> It will be interesting to see the reception in the NoSQL and HTML5
>> community when this project will be a bit more mature.
>>
>> It implements JSONiq updates and update composition on top of
>> IndexedDB. The end goal is to query/update IndexedDB and implement a
>> versioning system between IndexedDB and the cloud. Compiled queries
>> can run as standalone JavaScript programs: it's very lightweight.
>> It is tested against both browsers and nodejs.
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> That's awesome and exactly the sort of good fit for JSONiq that I
> expected to be adopted by the JavaScript community.
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> I wondered in terms of JSONiq support whether it is possible to do
> without IndexedDB, i.e. just be able to query JSON files and/or JSON
> coming in over the http (via AJAX and WebSockets etc)?
The architecture is completely decoupled from IndexedDB.
Querying/Updating IndexedDB is simply the closest use case for us.

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> Out of interest, regards Node.js, what do you use for the IndexedDB?
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>> This implementation is 100% organically grown.  We started with an
>> XQuery parser in JavaScript for HTML5 editors. We then added static
>> analysis for errors and warnings (XQLint). XQLint is quite mature now
>> and the next logical step was to add a code generation step.
>
> I wish you all the best with this project. I hope it gets the
> attention it deserves from the JavaScript community. I will be
> interested to see how it goes...
Thanks Adam!

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