[HN Gopher] Xqerl - Erlang XQuery 3.1 Processor
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       Xqerl - Erlang XQuery 3.1 Processor
        
       Author : smartmic
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-11-11 09:48 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | cyberpunk wrote:
       | This looks cool, Im quite uninformed about xml databases and
       | xquery though, and I had foolishly assumed I had quite a broad
       | exposure to tech stacks.
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       | Whats this stuff used for?
        
         | smartmic wrote:
         | I use XQuery to transform XML data. Whatever can be done with
         | XSLT can also be done in XQuery. It is a functional language
         | and, unlike XSLT, it is supported by more tools for newer
         | versions (XSLT > 1.0 is only supported by Saxon, as far as I
         | know). Overall, it feels much more modern and ergonomic for
         | querying and transforming XML. Best of all: XQuery 3.1 supports
         | JSON natively -- I have also adopted it for JSON in some ETL
         | pipelines.
         | 
         | Check Wikipedia for more information:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery
        
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