2008/9/25 Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:06 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote: > [...] >> XQuery doesn't make that much sense when playing with a single document, > > There are several implementations of XQuery that work on a single > document and that people say are useful. > > >> my feeling is that it's more fit for a set/database of documents, >> i.e. libxml2 might be used to implement an XQuery engine on top of >> some database but just for within libxml2 it's not worth it. > > As it stands today I don't know how good a fit libxml would be -- > for XPath 2, nodes are typed, so you'd wanting to make some changes. > Certainly you could use libxml's XMLReader API to build data model > instances, though, and/or tie in to the W3C XML Schema validation. > > dbxml (which uses Quilla) is a viable alternative for many people, > and the FLWOR Foundation is funding another, both in C++. If you > are doing work in KDE, there's also an implementation from TrollTech > (Nokia now).
Just to clarify, you need not be doing work in KDE to use the implementation in Qt. Qt != KDE. In fact you could use just the QtXml and QtCore modules of Qt, and not have to link to all of the Qt library. Elvis > > Liam > > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org > > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml > _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
