On Sat, 18 May 2013, James Fuller wrote:
Uche Ogbuji reminded us at last XML Prague to reach out to the digital humanities folks ... and I think this is an especially relevant group of people we should be trying to engage; librarians love this little language.
Speaking as someone in the digital humanities community, I am extremely grateful for the work that has been done on XQuery and on the entire suite of XML-related W3C technologies (XPath, XSLT, etc.) within the W3C working groups and by independent developers. As a self-taught programmer without a computer science background, I can't evaluate the theoretical arguments pro or against different styles of programming languages; all I know is that in the practical world, it is almost inconceivable that the projects I have worked on for the last decade could have been achieved as well as they have without XQuery and the tools built upon it (notably Saxon, MarkLogic, and the oXygen editor/IDE). Even if the community of users is small by comparison with Javascript or Perl or whatever, the impact of projects that rely on XQuery is, I suspect, much greater than people realize.
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