RE: [Chicken-users] [ANN] Scheme API to Sedna XML database system

[Maxim Grinev]

Thank you for your feedback.
You are very welcome! If you need any support in trying/using Sedna, just
let me know.

Maxim


>
> Amazing!  I had just spent the last month trying to find a good way to do
> XQuery and XML databases through Scheme, and here you have an XQuery
> solution written in Scheme and my favourite Scheme
> implementation: Chicken.
> (I would have spent months trying to wrap and extend IBM's xqnsta tool to
> get only 1/10 of the distance you already have).
>
> For those that don't know XQuery, it is the most promising and flexible
> means of manipulating XML (think XSL on steroids).  For Schemers, it is a
> snap to pick up because it is a functional language.  Some things that I
> like particularly about Sedna:  1) the Sedna database uses
> DataGuides, which
> are the most promising (again!) XML backend, allowing both easy
> indexing and
> schema-less XML, and 2) the XQuery implementation actually
> optimizes, which
> is something you very rarely see in other XQuery implementations.
>
> Great work guys!
>
> Jonah Beckford
>