XQuery in the browser

Since the invention of the Web, the browser has become more and more powerful. By now, it is a programming and execution environment in itself. The predominant language to program applications in the browser today is JavaScript. With browsers becoming more powerful, JavaScript has been extended and new layers have been added (e.g., DOM-Support and XPath). Today, JavaScript is very successful and applications and GUI features implemented in the browser have become increasingly complex. The purpose of this paper is to improve the programmability of Web browsers by enabling the execution of XQuery programs in the browser. Although it has the potential to ideally replace JavaScript, it is possible to run it in addition to JavaScript for more flexibility. Furthermore, it allows instant code migration from the server to the client and vice-versa. This enables a significant simplification of the technology stack. The intuition is that programming the browser involves mostly XML (i.e., DOM) n...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Ghislain Fourny, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Darin McBeath
• Keywords: Internet Technology, WWW 2009, XQuery Family, XQuery Plug-in, XQuery Programs