[ANN] XQuery as a scripting language in IE

[COUTHURES Alain]

Thank you again, Michael, for your response.
> Perhaps this should be a project for EXQuery.
Good idea !
> I suspect your chances of getting everyone to accept your design are 
> much better if you have a forum for consultation rather than trying to 
> present it as a fait accompli - even if you do a magnificent job of 
> the design, other people might have different use cases.
Yes, you're right.
>  
> I think there are three possible styles of XML representation:
>  
> (a) one that looks as much as possible like current human-readable 
> XQuery. This is largely a question of changing the rules for escaping 
> of special characters such as the "<" and "<<" operators, and 
> preventing people writing non-XML things like <e att="{<e 
> att="{"3"}"/>}"/> which are currently legal but rather useless.
>  
> (b) one that uses a bit more XML markup, e.g. giving an alternative 
> XML-based syntax for prolog declarations like "import schema" and for 
> function signatures.
>  
> (c) the full (non-human-readable) fine-grained XQueryX syntax.
>  
> Since we already have (c), I think the main requirement is probably 
> for something like (a) (though (b) would give benefits if people want 
> a compromise between human-readability and software-readability).
In my point of view, benefits with (a) would be less than with (b). 
Grammar analysis is much easier with XML markup. I would like XQuery XML 
notation to be at the same level as XSLT.
>  
> One of the challenges is in defining how the in-scope namespaces from 
> the containing XML document should affect the static context of the query.
Thank you also for this remark !

Regards,

Alain COUTHURES
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