[xquery-talk] [ANN] XQuery as a scripting language in IE

[COUTHURES Alain]

Hello,

I also think that XQuery can be very nice at client-side, especially 
with XForms. I already looked at Zorba...

When a plug-in is necessary, it means that public use is a problem and 
that version management is difficult.

My project named XSLTForms is a client-side implementation of XForms 
based on XSLT and Javascript. For this, I had to write XPath expression 
analysis with XSLT 1.0 only. It's complex but didn't required more than 
few days. The result is a sort of compiled expression easy be to 
executed by Javascript. Surprisingly, the XSLT transformation is fast 
and the generated Javascript is light.

XSLT 1.0 and Javascript are well supported and stable in recent browsers 
such as IE, FireFox, Opera and Safari/Chrome. I don't like to have to 
wait for editors to implement recommendations and some of them prefer 
invent new "revolutionary" stuff instead...

Let me add that this architecture (XSLT transformation then generated 
Javascript code execution) permit people to easily add the specific 
functions they could require.

Version 1.0 of XSLTForms has to be released before implementing XQuery 
instruction analysis in it but I now think it's possible without too 
many difficulties (I would have liked a reasonable XML notation for 
XQuery...). As XSLTForms is already an opensource project, contributors 
are welcome to join !

Alain COUTHURES
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Bordeaux, France
XForms for browsers without plug-in : http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms