I've been taking an xQuery class this week, and it occurs to me that I'd really rather not learn a new programming language. It seems like most of what xQuery does could also be done by adding an 'xmlnode' datatype to perl (along with the relevant subtypes) and also adding XPath as a native expression type (like regex.)

With these two additions, you could most of what xQuery lets you do, except you'd need a persistence library / database to perform operations on XML that's not currently in memory. A DBI-like set of modules could let you plug that in.

Does anything like this already exist, in either Perl 5 or Perl 6?

Doug.

In reply to xQuery functionality in Perl? by DougWebb

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