Re: [Exist-open] Limit to complexity of an application using only xquery?

[Adam R. <ada...@de...>]

I dont see any reason why you couldnt do it in XQuery.

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:59 -0800, Ray Allis wrote:
> I want to organize some text for a book.  I have about thirty years of
> notes and musings, some on disk, much more on paper. There is a lot of
> redundancy and places where I said almost but not quite the same thing. 
> Word processing is not very helpful.  I am thinking I could create a
> collection of a few hundred fragments and manipulate them like notes,
> maybe a half-dozen or so on the screen at once.  I could search, compare
> and recombine fragments (I think) better than in a word processor.  I
> will eventually want to outline or graph ( maybe even topic maps ;-) )
> and organize the result.  I may even end up with hypertext rather than a
> book.  
> 
> So I have looked at the xquery demos and I am impressed.  The question
> for you experienced developers is, should I try to do this simple
> application using xquery, or am I being overly impressed?  ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray Allis
> 
> 
> 
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