RE: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?
Actually i had the opposite question. Do we know of any work where XSLT has worked as a query language for database and the optimizations that have been done?
Or put another way is there an XSLT processor [or atleast a dumbed down XQuery equivalent processor] that has acted as a query engine?
I think that would be of immense interest!
My suspicion is it is early days either ways... but given the amount of investment the database community has placed on query optimization - I am guessing it will be easier to adapt those techniques for XQuery than it is for XSLT; but then again that is just my guess:-)