Concensus on the most elegant XPath/etc implementation

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Subject: Concensus on the most elegant XPath/etc implementation
From: "Justin Johansson procode@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 18:07:11 -0000

In this community's view, are there any specific XPath/XQuery/XSLT 2.0+ implementations that stand out source code wise as being (subjectively) particularly elegant in terms of spec mapping to code? I know that Saxon is more-or-less the (gold-standard) reference implementation circa Java 1.0 genealogy but the source code is trying (no disrespect intended). Then there is XBase which arguably a little more modern and others like Sedna etc in non-JVM languages which approach the implementation problem differently.

Is it fair to say that there exists no XPath 2.0+ implementation that can be said to be really elegant and that the "accepted as good" products are simply heroic works of megaSLOCs in less-that-desirable available programming languages?

I don't know, but my feeling is that the implementation of XPath 2.0+ should not have been as difficult as it seems to be and perhaps the available language platforms just haven't helped to produce good orthogonal, DRY stuff. You know what I mean; it shouldn't be difficult but it is.

Cynically asking, does anyone actually care if XPath/XQuery has a really cool behind-the-scenes source code implementation?

Justin Johansson
XPath implementation aspirant.

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Concensus on the most elegant XPath/etc implementation Justin Johansson procode@xxxxxxxxxxx - 2 May 2015 18:07:11 -0000 <= John Lumley john@xxxxxxxxxxxx - 2 May 2015 21:53:13 -0000 Tony Graham tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 4 May 2015 10:37:34 -0000 Debbie Lapeyre dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 4 May 2015 16:13:46 -0000

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