I will be presenting a more technical version of my recent presentation (at Arhus GOTOCON) about XQuery.
http://www.meetup.com/muglondon/events/40390792/ I used this talk to try and provide some basis to the various adhoc comments I have received over the years about XQuery productivity ... yes we know its very productive but I wanted to understand the reasons behind this. So I did an informal analysis and survey to try and understand if XQuery is actually productive or if its a matter of the imagination! I will also try and present a few xquery gems to illustrate the boundaries of the language. One example of this is the recent Corona effort https://github.com/marklogic/Corona which is an attempt to build a complete NoSQL drop in replacement, using XQuery set within MarkLogic. Its a pretty impressive example of how far you can push the language. In particular I am interested in discussing how we can further promote XQuery to a larger audience (and possibly all kinds of data); so would be great to get some momentum behind this. I don't know if XQuery will ever gain critical adoption, but I do know it took SQL 15 yrs to 'catch on' and it will take several years for the NoSQL crowd to get their query/update story standardized ... I do know that a language like SQL and XQuery is what we need and open to all ideas of how to go forward. Jim Fuller _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
