The concept of using XQuery as a mechanism for generating web pages is a comparatively new one in the XML Database and XQuery engine world, but the benefits to do so should be fairly obvious. Indeed, there's been a new meme that's begun appearing under the heading XRX, which stands for XQuery, REST, and XForms, though that last particular X could also stand, just as effectively, for XMLHttpRequestObject, the central component in the AJAX world.
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A small but high-powered core of markup specialists converges on Montreal every August. A decade ago there were XML conferences everywhere - everyone wanted to know everything they could about XML. Today, I think it's fair to say that most...
This is part 3 of a series in which I’m trying to implement a RESTful social bookmarking web service using the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture. I’ve covered setting up queries in eXist and using Orbeon to expose those queries with nice URLs in the previous parts. This time I’m going to look at how to handle PUT and POST to make a read/write web service.
I want to explore the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture, so I’ve set myself the challenge of implementing a social bookmarking web service modelled on del.icio.us as described in Chapter 7 of Leonard Richardson’s and Sam Ruby’s RESTful Web Services,...




