Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] CLI XQuery engine Xidel 0.8.4 (Balisage edition) released

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Benito van der Zander <>
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L2L 2L <>
Date
2014-08-14T21:07:50Z
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Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] CLI XQuery engine Xidel 0.8.4 (Balisage edition) released
Hi L2l,

It has nothing to do with a browser.
(the browser is with the spoon)

You have a webpage, say example.org, and want to know the title of all 
webpages linked from there.
Then you could open a browser and click on the links, but it is faster 
to just write:

xidel http://example.org -f //a -e //title

Best,
Benito


On 08/14/2014 10:30 PM, L2L 2L wrote:
> ..... I'm don't follow.... So this will make use of the browser as a interface to executing xQuery, and see the change In the Browser viewport?
>
> Yes or no?
>
> If so, then you just made another wyswyg, but instead you utilize the browser as a CVM.
>
> E-S4L
> N-S4L
>
>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:18 PM, "Benito van der Zander" <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi L2l,
>> no, no, no.
>>
>> I am saying the opposite.
>>
>> You can replace your browser with XQuery.
>>
>> The webpages are the input data, and instead opening them in the browser, you access them with XQuery on the command line...
>>
>> (And unlike Firefox, it is not going to eat 2.5 GB RAM)
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Benito
>>
>>
>>> On 08/14/2014 07:37 PM, L2L 2L wrote:
>>> ... Soooo I can program in xQuery on in the browser? ... Right? That's what you are saying, that I can program in xQuery in the browser? Right? I mean I don't want to mistake what you are saying, so I'm asking. I am asking that what you are saying is that I can program xQuery in the browser? Right?
>>>
>>> ...RIGHT?!??!!??!???!???!??!???!???!
>>>
>>> E-S4L
>>> N-S4L
>>>
>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 8:43 AM, "Benito van der Zander" <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Xidel is a dependency-free cli tool to apply (X-)queries to webpages.
>>>>
>>>> This version extends the typeswitch, for and let expressions with the pattern-matching
>>>> syntax that I described in my Balisage talk last week:
>>>>
>>>> Download:
>>>>
>>>> http://videlibri.sourceforge.net/xidel.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bye,
>>>> Benito
>>>>
>>>>
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