xquery & web server in browser

[Pavel Minaev]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Michael Kay<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> There are a lot of people keen on the idea of xquery in the web browser.
>
> Unfortunately, though, I think there's a bit of a conflict. A lot of the
> benefits of the web architecture come from the fact that the browser is
> small, ubiqitous, and predictable.

Well, one way to achieve the same result is to build on that small and
predictable foundation. This rules out plugins, but there's other
possibility - that of "compiling" XQuery to cross-browser JavaScript.
We already have GWT that does a similar thing, so the general concept
is proven, and I don't see why doing the same to XQuery would be any
harder. The main problem that I see there is that browser XML
manipulation APIs aren't standardized yet, but this is going to change
with HTML5 (and meanwhile there are already "good enough" ways to work
around this by detecting and using the mush-mash of the existing
browser-specific APIs).