Re: interfacing qexo/xquery with kawa?

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my idea was to use xquery for what it's good at, and do the rest in Scheme, thus using Kawa as a multi-language platform. I thought I could compile *.scm, *.xql etc. files indivually and use them.
>
> For example, xquery is good for extracting fields out of XML, or possibly for validating a document, before calling other functions.
>
> The qexo pages mention calling Java from qexo (does it work with calling Scheme?), but I wanted to do it the other way round.

It would be nice to be able to mix and match Schema and XQuery.
The CVS version is a step on the way, as it fixes some symbol-related 
bugs, and it supported separately-compiled XQuery "library modules".
The latter will be supportged in Kawa 1.8, but I make no promises (yet) 
about mixing Scheme and XQuery.

> #|kawa:3|# (getit "signature.xml")
> gnu.mapping.UnboundSymbol: Unbound symbol document

I'd like fn:document to get compiled to a direct call to the appropriate 
 Java method, and in that case there would be no run-time lookup. 
Doesn't quite happen that way yet.
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