you should take a look at xcruciate, http://www.xcruciate.co.uk/ I can
see some synergy between these 2 projects.

J

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Alex Clark <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On the other hand, we (W3C) did not define explicit places to put, say,
>> SQL or SPARQL or other syntax to configure such inputs; for my own part
>> I'd be supportive of such an idea.
>
> Excellent, one supporter so far.  :)  I'm happy to help define this.
>
>> Having said all that, I also wonder whether XQuery isn't a better
>> starting-point for mashups... not because of differences in power
>> of the languages, but because of different focus of implementations.
>
> FWIW: We chose XSL over XQuery mainly for the ability to do schema
> validation.  We wanted third parties to add custom tags (similar to
> extensions in XSL).  Vendors could then create schemas that would ensure
the
> templates only contained tags supported by that vendor.