On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Liam R. E. Quin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 17:06 +0000, Schwartz, Christine wrote: >> I'm preparing an ALA preconference session for librarians titled >> "Using XQuery as a Library Metadata Tool." I'd like to provide the >> attendees with a list of XQuery resources so they can set up their >> own XQuery programming environment at their home institutions. Open >> source software is usually preferred by librarians, especially for >> grant projects. >> >> I feel a little handicapped in this area as I've been using >> MarkLogic for over seven years and have not had to work with open >> source XQuery tools. > > I on the other hand have not used MarkLogic. > > BaseX and eXist seem to be the most widely used. There is also Zorba, > although I found it difficult to set up, and Sedna, which seems not to > be actively maintained. That is absolutely true. We are currently tackling this problem. We are providing a simple docker container for Zorba at the moment: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/wcandillon/zorba/ We are looking to provide in the future a Zorba service via docker that can be consumed easily from php, java and son.
In the list of open source IDEs, I would like to add Atom (https://atom.io/packages/language-jsoniq) and Cloud9. > > Usually I send people to BaseX in the first instance, as the easiest > to get started (it's written in Java and has a GUI, and can be used > also from PHP, Perl, etc.; most people I've spoken with seem to have > their first query running within a few minutes of downloading the > software). > > For a mixed relation + XML model, Virtuoso supports XQuery, although I > have not tried it. > > What I believe is most important is to keep any software-specific > extensions isolated from the main queries, so you can easily switch. > > I should really update www.w3.org/XML/Query/ to reflect XQuery 3.0 > reality. > > Liam > >> Any recommendations on what should be on this list? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chris >> >> Christine Schwartz >> Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator >> Princeton Theological Seminary Library >> 25 Library Place >> Princeton, NJ 08540 >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
