Re: [xml-dev] seduced by markup

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 20:59 -0800, daniela florescu wrote:
> > I somethimes think that if we renamed XQuery as "Very Fast
> > Forest Engine" (VFFE) it might become more popular, as the programmers
> > might forget about their hatred and fear for the things they do not
> > control (such as XML) in their sudden joy.
> 
> Great thinking, Liam ! :-)
> 
> VFFE exists, and it is called Jsoniq (www.jsoniq.org) and the associated schema
> is Jsound (http://www.jsoniq.org/docs/JSOund/html-single/)

Yes, I am increasingly hearing from people who are happy with, or very
interested in, JSONiQ.


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