XQuery as a general data processing language WAS: [xquery-talk] XQuery and Web 2.0

[Peter Coppens]

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> I guess that depends on what data you have coming in and going out.  
> A large and increasing number of applications have XML/HTML both  
> coming in and going out. In this circumstance it makes a great deal  
> of sense to write business logic in XQuery  - and I've seen  
> customers who are doing exactly that.

I guess yes....in my case I have X(HT)ML coming in and going out  
indeed, but also a lot of data stored in a RDBMS (that is being  
accessed using EBJ3/JPA).