XSquiggle ? Re: [xml-dev] Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225)

Bill de hÓra wrote:

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> Burak Emir wrote:
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>> My point is that it is more than questionable to use them as the 
>> *only* way to pass queries to the XQJ driver (what was called 
>> "call-level interface"). This results in the *lack* of a high-level 
>> interface which is the real problem. JDBC is a real shame (I hope I 
>> am not doing it again).
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> http://joe.truemesh.com/squiggle/
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Yes, indeed! Thanks for this link, this looks cool.

With XQuery thingies instead of SQL thingies, this would amount to

NodeSeq orders = new NodeSeq("doc('orders.xml') // orders");
ForQuery fq = new ForQuery("$i", orders);
fq.setReturn("<result>{$i / id }{$i / totalPrice}</result>");
...
Node result = myConnection.doQuery( fq );
...

Any idea whether Joe has the intention of doing something like this for 
XQuery ?

Imagine how much more readble JDBC code would be if all JDBC driver 
would expect instances of SelectQuery instead of strings...

cheers,
Burak