size of XQuery developer community

[Mukul Gandhi]

I believe, people who are using the newer relational-XML hybrid
databases, which have SQL & XQuery hybrid processors, are probably
using XQuery a lot (in conjunction with SQL).

Or to say, newer applications using these hybrid databases, are most
likely designing their data models, as relational-XML combined models,
and they most likely are taking advantage of XQuery to query/update
these hybrid data models.

I think, XQuery working on XML files in a filesystem, still faces a
stong competition with XSLT. It seems to me, XSLT is a leading
technology in this area.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Daniela Florescu<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> almost every time when I give a talk about XQuery I get confronted
> with the same  question, to which I do not know the answer.
>
> The question from the audience always is: " How many XQuery developers are
> there? "
> -- with the underlying assumption that, indeed, there are not that many.
>
> Please help me with this. I honestly don't know the answer.
>
> How do you appreciate the size of the XQuery developers community ?
> (thousands,
> tens of thousands, millions !!??)
>
> Thanks in advance, best regards
> Dana



-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi