Before I started developing the R client for BaseX several years ago, I
used to program regularly in SWI-Prolog. And I always wondered
afterwards about the possible benefits of using Prolog in combination
with XQuery. So after I finished developing RbaseX, I started developing
ProBaseX.

I did not manage to set up a connection in Swipl. Therefore, my initial
plan to develop ProBasex entirely in SWI-prolog was changed to a plan to
first set up a connection in C++ and then use that connection. This work
eventually resulted in a linux shared library that implements the full
server protocol. I will now use that library for further development work.

LibBasexCpp and the test program libBasexTest.cpp are now on the
Internet: https://github.com/BenEngbers/libBasexCpp

I am curious to see if this library fills a need and if it makes sense
to continue working on a dual platform version.


Ben Engbers