RE: request for practical usage examples of XQuery

XSLT examples from "real life" are of course rather easier to come by than
XQuery examples, as the language has been out for 3.5 years, while XQuery is
still in draft. 

The archives of the xsl-list at www.mulberrytech.com give you an immense
database of the coding mistakes that beginners make with XSLT, and the areas
where people have design problems, but it tells you rather less about the
stylesheets that people have successfully developed and put into production.

For XQuery, you might find it useful to ask users of Tamino on the forum at
http://developer.softwareag.com/tamino/

Not many Tamino users will yet be using version 4.1 (which introduces XQuery
support) in live applications, but they may be able to tell you what they
are doing with previous releases or what they are currently developing.

Michael Kay
Software AG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joris Graaumans [mailto:joris@cs.uu.nl] 
> Sent: 05 June 2003 07:41
> To: www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: request for practical usage examples of XQuery
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm doing a Ph.D. research project about human usability 
> aspects of XML 
> query languages. At this moment I'm planning human factors 
> experiments to 
> investigate usability aspects of XSLT, SQL/XML and, of 
> course, XQuery. 
> These experiments are needed to clarify:
> 
> 1) What difficulties arise with use of certain language features?
> 2) What is the cause of the difficulty of certain language features?
> 
> Ideally, the experiments should reflect the practical use of a query 
> language. Therefore, I'm looking for examples of how XQuery 
> actually is 
> used in real life. I would like to request XQuery users to 
> send me the 
> following:
> 1) Description of the task performed;
> 2) Documents or sample documents + schema;
> 3) Actual queries;
> 4) Optionally: state if there was an issue or not with the language.
> 
> The format of the W3C XML Query Use Cases would be perfect, but 
> descriptions that are less nicely organized are also welcome.
> 
> Examples can be mailed to joris@cs.uu.nl
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joris Graaumans
> Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
> Utrecht University 
>

Received on Thursday, 5 June 2003 05:23:05 UTC