xquery & web server in browser

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

about "native XSLT processor" - sound cool but while it is not
implemented - i have one suggestion

currently we have direct access to "files" in eXist database from XSLT
by doc('xmldb:exist:///db/..../rows.xml')

is here something similar for directly call XQuery files from XSLT?

for example doc('xmldb:rest://rest/.../getrows.xq?from=1&to=20')
without extra serialize&reparse step

with best wishes,
Slav

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Andrew Welch<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> 2009/6/19 Florent Georges <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>:
>>
>> 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.)
>
> What Rob means (if can speak for him, we've talked about this before a
> few times :) is that currently if you construct an xhtml page using
> xslt, which calls xquery to build the input from an xml db (such as
> using doc()  to call eXist's rest interface) then this happens:
>
> xml db -> xquery -> xml doc -> xslt -> xhtml
>
> ...an intermediary xml document is constructed.
>
> Hopefully this step will be removed soon when xslt can talk directly
> to the database, or at least operate on the result of a query without
> the serialisation/parse step.
>
> Also, I'm looking forward to standalone runnable transforms, so I can
> map a url to a stylesheet and have its "main" named template run...  I
> guess/hope eXist will do something like this too.
>
>
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