size of XQuery developer community

[Florent Georges]

Liam Quin wrote:

  Hi,

> I thnk we need to see standardised (or at least widespread)
> frameworks before it will get much larger -

>   - call XQuery from Java in one line (cf. what JQuery did for
>     AJAX)
>   - In a Web server, pass CGI/form parameters and query URIs to
>     XQuery in a standrd way
>   - some widespread modules, e.g. for wrapping system functions
>     to return stff like the height and width of an image, or a
>     list of files in a directory

  As well as a standard way to distribute standard libraries
written in plain XQuery, a standard way to package them ;-)
Having a lot of good open-source libraries for common tasks (and
easily installable across several processors) is a big factor of
adoption for a language, IMHO.

  Regards,

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Florent Georges
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