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Publication
XIME-P 2005
Conference paper
Lopsided little languages: Experience with XQueryin a document generation subsystem
Abstract
XQuery is a standard language for doing queries over XML: designed carefully by some very skilled people to be superb at taking XML-structured data apart, sifting through it, and putting it back together. Our project's document generation subsystem involved taking XML-structured data apart, sifting through it, and putting it back together. Why was it so much more agonizing to do that in XML than in Java? How can one design a specialized query language so that it is nicer to use than a general programming language?