I'm fairly new to this mailing list. I've used both XIndice and qexo. I had some experience with SQL and XML Query so I'd like to volunteer myself for the XQuery task. Can some xindice developer give me some hints on where I ought to start? I'm not familiar with your open source development procedure. Thanx!
Ideally it would be nice to incorporate qexo into xindice. But qexo is under GPL license, not open source. I'll email Per Bothner asking for his permission.
This is the real problem. I don't see how Quexo can be incorporated in Xindice as of now, at least in the official distribution since Apache rules forbid (and for a reason) to incorporate and distribute GPL code. So, if you want to give it a try, keep in mind that it has to remain an external package hosted elsewhere (Sourceforge?).
I think 80% of the XQuery work will be to support XPath 2.0. If I understand correctly xindice curretnly delegates all XPath queries to xalan. Any one knows if there has been any efforts from the xalan group to support xpath 2.0?
Look in Xalan CVS at xslt_20 branch: work is ongoing but there is no schedule AFAIK. Besides, once Xalan supports XPath 2.0 it might be fairly easy to build an XQuery engine around it.
Thanks for your offer anyway: any contribution is much appreciated.
Ciao,
-- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. http://www.pro-netics.com
