Programmatically constructing sequences ("a", "b", "c") for XQuery

[Michael Ludwig]

Vyacheslav Sedov schrieb:
> too much work to "marry white rose with black toad" :(
>
> i guess exist-db.org is much better solution (xquery-centric) where we
> need java only to run eXist and Saxon

Vyacheslav,

I don't know if it's better, but it is a much bigger app server, not a
library. Anyway, I'm going to stay in the Berkeley camp.

> for pessimists i can report that we already have working project in
> Ministry of Public Utilities based only on eXist & Saxon, something
> like Cybersyn-2 :) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

Interesting. I think the reason that one failed was they didn't include
beer bottle holders in the swivel chairs.

> XQuery-centric web applications sounds scary but it really better then
> living in old-fashioned world of xml-unfriendly languages like java
> and php, web *must* be xml - so why use java or php to build web?

Inertia? Don't forget it does take time to learn all the XML stuff - in
addition to what you've already learnt.

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Michael Ludwig