xquery & web server in browser

[Ronald Bourret]

Robert Koberg wrote:
> 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).

It could make sense in an AJAX-like scenario, where you want to make 
multiple queries against the data. Obviously, this would depend on the 
size of the data set, the speed of the connection, etc.

-- Ron