xquery & web server in browser

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

i think browser can act as proxy server to localhost-based eXist
database (or AMP if somebody still love it)

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Robert Koberg<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
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> On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Gary Lewis wrote:
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>> I'm a new member of the talk list and am uncertain that my question is
>> appropriate. Please ignore if it is off topic.
>>
>> Can anyone comment on the possibility that xquery could be used as a
>> data integration/mashup tool running in a browser that included a web
>> server?
>
> Why? To me, the best thing about XQuery is that it can run natively (and
> more efficiently than the more encompassing XSL) on an XML DB providing all
> the speed and memory efficiency afforded by the different and incompatible
> XML DBs. Caveat emptor: I fall into the camp that doesn't believe XQuery is
> a good styling language or a good PHP-like webapp templating language. (if
> there even is a camp, rather than me leaning over a bic lighter)
>
> Running XQuery in the browser seems like a huge waste of bandwidth where you
> would have to download everything you want to query against, perhaps to find
> only a tiny fragment. I would create a URL and just GET it from a server
> where XQuery creates the XML or JSON to be styled on the client with XSL or
> JavaScript (as &deity; intended).
>
>
>> There's been quite a bit of excitement the past couple days
>> about the Opera Unite announcement of its "web server in a web
>> browser" concept.
>
> Google's Gears has been around for a while:
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> http://gears.google.com/
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> -Rob
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>
>> Is it possible that xquery, as a
>> query/integration/transformation tool, might someday be a plugin to a
>> browser (eg, Chrome; Chrome/Wave)?
>>
>>
>> I'm asking out of ignorance more than anything. The dots seem to be
>> there for the connecting, but I guess that's what I'm asking ... are
>> the dots there, are they likely to be connected, or is it just wishful
>> thinking?
>>
>> Just so you have some orientation as to where this question is coming
>> from. I'm basically a data user ... someone who uses tools like SQL
>> and XQuery and R to do analysis with data. In the course of doing
>> this, I've stretched into the IT side of things and designed
>> enterprise data warehouses etc. So my interest in
>> xquery-in-a-web-server-browser is so I can do cool things with data.
>> I'm not interested in actually creating an xquery plugin that would
>> make this possible. I wouldn't even know how to start.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Gary
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