Presentations and tutorials
Object-oriented XQuery and declarative documents
The author has started to design and work with an object-oriented class system for XQuery.
Limited experience3 so far suggests a tension between thinking about an application document-first and object-first.
Object-oriented markup can shield the developer from changes in markup, and even from the markup itself, but in that case, why bother?
The answer is a synergy that combines both views, and declarative object-oriented XQuery supports such a view.
The talk will present the object oriented class system both from a developer/query-writer point of view and from an implementer’s perspective, and then discuss the implications.
Liam Quin has worked in text formatting, programming, typography, since the early 1980s, later moving to work at SoftQuad, the SGML company, in Toronto. Since then, and since being head of XML at W3C for 17 years, Liam heads Delightful Computing, a small consulting, development, and training firm based on an island in Lake Ontario, Canada.