To pile one more on top of Jim. My personal favorite way to "play with XQuery" is (of course!) with xmlsh, free and open source http://ww.xmlsh.org
Its a "shell" who's expression language is XQuery and who's variables are XDM values (anything XQuery can produce). It comes as a command line "shell" as well as a primative GUI (xmlshui) Truely excellent for a quick start at learning XQuery ... And yes, you *can* embed it into a tomcat server and run web pages. In fact you can do a "1 line web server" (very primative) with its buitlin http server support. http://www.xmlsh.org/CommandHttpserver Under the hood , the XQuery and XSLT parts come from the excellent open source XQuery and XSLT parser, Saxon ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.xmlsh.org From: James Fuller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:46 AM To: e-letter Cc: Misztur, Chris; [email protected]; Liam Quin; Christian Grün; Adam Retter; David Lee Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] xquery technology now ready? On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:08 AM, e-letter <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Will ask again nearer the time; thanks very much! As you can see, there are many helpful and friendly people here willing to pitch in when someone want to learn more. I thought I would mention that learning xquery has benefits beyond just your current app dev as in XQuery is perhaps the easiest functional programming language to learn and once you learn the fundamentals of programming with fp, you can apply it to other languages. Without sounding too over the top, learning XQuery and functional programming idioms that go along with it, will make you a better programmer in any programming language. good luck, Jim Fuller
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