On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 20:01 +0000, e-letter wrote: > I don't understand this (being ignorant of the web host market, > admittedly). If a gnu gpl xquery server software exists why would they > be reluctant to add this to their service if a customer demands and > pays for it?
The most popular ones are written in Java, and use more memory and CPU than the Web hosting companies want to allocate to a shared host. There also tends to be a distrust of Java-based software in Free software communities. > Consider the question of cost as being "devil's advocate"; it seems > that the price of using xquery is at least 3x a more prevalent sql & > server script system, I don't think that's necessarily true. For example, apache with zorba and PHP is a Java-free zero-dollar open-source alternative. You can also run XQuery systems alongside MySQL quite happily, accessing relational data as well as XML hierarchical data from XQuery. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
