Comments on: XQuery as a Web Query Tool http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2009/06/19/xquery-as-a-web-query-tool/ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:25:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Gary Lewis http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2009/06/19/xquery-as-a-web-query-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Gary Lewis Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:25:51 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=980#comment-181 Hi Cefn - That sounds very cool. I hope we can stay in touch; I'd like to hear more. Thanks for the comment. ... Gary Hi Cefn – That sounds very cool. I hope we can stay in touch; I’d like to hear more. Thanks for the comment. … Gary

]]> By: Cefn Hoile http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2009/06/19/xquery-as-a-web-query-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Cefn Hoile Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:40:56 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=980#comment-180 I've been looking into the use of a browser based webserver to enable ordinary people to edit and process schema-driven XML (their own data authored according to their own schema) on their local machine. Current tools are expensive and over-engineered for this job. I aim to make this open source and free. A firefox plugin acting as a webserver seems like an ideal approach - as a cross-browser and easy-to-install component which is easily hackable and extensible with widely understood HTML-oriented libraries for presentation and data entry as well as dynamic AJAX-like interactions with a backing data set which lives on the hard drive. I see this being used in order to create data-driven websites or for non-techies to hack their own personal information managers. XQuery in the browser would be a useful facility, but for now, I'm planning to use something like Saxon running XQueries, triggered by POW - David Kellogg's Plain Old Webserver. http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page Some of the XML processing tasks are doable with XPath driven by Javascript directly in the page without any additional plugins in Firefox at least. It may be that the facilities required for this project will need direct access to the OS capabilites anyway (i.e. writing files onto the harddrive), so would not be able to run inside a browser sandbox even if XQuery was available to it. I’ve been looking into the use of a browser based webserver to enable ordinary people to edit and process schema-driven XML (their own data authored according to their own schema) on their local machine. Current tools are expensive and over-engineered for this job. I aim to make this open source and free.

A firefox plugin acting as a webserver seems like an ideal approach – as a cross-browser and easy-to-install component which is easily hackable and extensible with widely understood HTML-oriented libraries for presentation and data entry as well as dynamic AJAX-like interactions with a backing data set which lives on the hard drive.

I see this being used in order to create data-driven websites or for non-techies to hack their own personal information managers.

XQuery in the browser would be a useful facility, but for now, I’m planning to use something like Saxon running XQueries, triggered by POW – David Kellogg’s Plain Old Webserver.
http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page

Some of the XML processing tasks are doable with XPath driven by Javascript directly in the page without any additional plugins in Firefox at least.

It may be that the facilities required for this project will need direct access to the OS capabilites anyway (i.e. writing files onto the harddrive), so would not be able to run inside a browser sandbox even if XQuery was available to it.

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