xquery & web server in browser

[Florent Georges]

Robert Koberg wrote:

> Ideally I would use XQuery to gather the requested parts of
> various documents in the existing structure/schema. Then, allow
> XSL to transform the XQuery builtup nodeset without having to
> create some DOMish (even if it is the XSL processor's optimized
> DOM) object.

  But XSLT does not rely on DOM (or on anything "DOMish.")  XSLT
does work, like XQuery, on XDM instances.  I know a very good
XQuery engine that evaluates queries against documents in memory.
I am not sure there is an XSLT implementation working on an XML
database (I mean directly on the nodes in the database,) but I
know eXist has some support for XSLT (I don't know if it accesses
nodes directly from the database or if it works on an in-memory
tree.)

  I just think this is not correct to oppose XQuery and XSLT when
the point is server-side vs. client-side.

  Regards,

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Florent Georges
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