xquery & web server in browser

[Matthias Brantner]

Hello Michael,

let me quickly try to comment on your issues below:

On 17.06.2009, at 18:24, Michael Ludwig wrote:

> Adam Retter schrieb:
>> This may be of interest -
>> http://www.zorba-xquery.com/index.php/xquery-in-the-browser-xqib/
>
> I found this is a bad starting point, because of all the errors.
>
> (1) "text/xqueryp" should probably be "text/xquery"
This is a left-over from the time XQuery Scripting was developed. By  
that time the proposal was called XQueryP (also see http://2006.xmlconference.org/proceedings/38/presentation.pdf 
  for moe information). In the latest XQIB release, only "text/xquery"  
works. I have fixed this.

> (2) XHTML namespace not declared in XQuery (not necessary?)
This is not necessary. For convenience, XQIB declares the XHTML  
namespace implicitly.

> (3) H1 should be h1 - but then apparently it shouldn't? Bizarrely,
>    //H1 works while //h1 doesn't.
This is a well-known problem. HTML is case insensitive while XHTML is  
not (lower-case). In its internal DOM, Internet Explorer stores all  
element names in upper-case letters. Since XQuery is case sensitive,  
this requires local names to be written in upper case. This is also  
the case for HTML in Firefox.

> (4) typographical quotes lead to non-recognition of XQuery <script>
You're right! This is due to the formatting done by the content  
management system on zorba-xquery.com.

> This is better to get started: http://www.xqib.org/samples/
Again right! The article mentioned above (i.e. on zorba-xquery.com) is  
meant to be a brief description of the XQIB project and not a tutorial.

Best regards

Matthias