Hello Colin,
Thanks for your feedback and your excitement about XQuery!
Your inquiry is neither newbie-like nor crazy :) We at BaseX, too, love developing completely in the X-Stack. We use RestXQ quite extensively in commercial products and do basically everything with XML-technology. So typically we have BaseX as a persistent layer and use XQuery in combination with RestXQ to implement the business logic. We also use XForms (e.g. using xsltforms or betterforms), which is very nice to create forms.
Also, using the development stack feels quite natural, as HTML is also just a XML dialect and so you always use the same technology.
Cheers,
Dirk
This is a newbie email.
I've been using basex for some time for its xquery engine (which is awesome) but never in production or for web development. I have some small projects coming up and looking at it for the db side of a web app I just noticed RESTXQ - looks really cool!
I'm not really a developer but I use xquery every day at work and so would love to use it - exclusively if possible. Does restxq mean that you can serve a site with no client (php, ruby, etc) in between the db and the html?
basex <-> html
That would be so simple and fun, and quite useful for a blog or other not-too-huge type of thing.
Or is that totally crazy for security reasons?
Colin
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