size of XQuery developer community

[Rob Gonzalez]

This really is the interesting question.  My bet is something in search.
Given that all Excel/Word/Outlook/etc. documents are or can be represented
in XML, and that standard text search doesn't do a great job generally in
the space (top vendors in the enterprise use facets, entity extraction, and
other tricks to help the problem), XQuery has a chance to be the syntax that
enables custom search solutions.  Someone on this list brought up MarkMail;
that's really all that is.  Banging out a search solution in a standard
language like XQ that's really good at dealing with semi-structured data is
simply easier than using other tools.

I honestly think that all the talk about XDM as a data model and XQ as a
turing complete declarative language, etc., is sort of moot unless they do
somehow enable something that RDBMS/BI/Data warehouses/search vendors can't
readily do with existing approaches.  If XQ is just an incremental
improvement, it will always be a marginal language (for example, that's how
I see the XQ scripting in the browser situation; it's simply not THAT much
better than JavaScript, and has the disadvantage of not having a million
libraries and code snippets and programmers).  I actually think that it is
much more than incremental in search, and it may be elsewhere as well.

-Rob


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Andrew Welch <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>wrote:

> 2009/8/31 Daniela Florescu <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>:
> >> why do developers and architects so stubbornly refuse just to _listen_ ?
> >
> > Because we don't talk to them (a) enough and (b) with a message that they
> > understand.
>
> What is the number one "killer app" for XQuery, shining example that
> can be given to people when talking about XML databases - one that is
> high profile enough that they may have heard of it?
>
>
>
>
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