Javascript Implementation

[Neville Franks]

Are there any plans to implement JSONiq in Javascript, so that it could be used in the Browser and Node.js? Maybe this is beyond the scope of the project. And what about a add-on/plug-in for Node.js?

Unless I'm missing something the current C++ implementation somewhat restricts the use of JSOiq.

-Neville

[William Candillon]

Hello,

Currently no implementation of JSONiq is available in the browser.
This might happen in the near futur: there is already an
implementation of XQuery available in the browser (http://xqib.org)
and Zorba is currently working JIT compiling with LLVM.

Currently Zorba and Node.js can talk to each other via processes or
HTTP (using the http://28.io app server). There are a lot of language
bindings available in Zorba which makes me think that it shouldn't be
too hard to make a Zorba binding for node.js.

Kind regards,

William

[Thom Bradford]

Hi Neville,

I will be working on such an implementation, although it will only be a subset of the JSONiq grammar that makes sense for in-browser work and I will be adding a bit of 'special sauce' to it based on my objeq library (http://objeq.org), specifically dynamic queries -- the 'tentative' home for this project will be at http://github.com/kode4food/junqi

Cheers!

Thom

[Rodolfo Ochoa]

Hello,

I just created a basic module for node.js so you can use it with Zorba and therefore to use JSONiq,

to install it, make sure you have Zorba properly installed on your system, the use npm like:

npm install zorba

this will enable you the Zorba module within node.js, currently we have only a simple binding, like in this example:

var zorba = require('zorba');

try {

  var r = zorba.execute("Hello from Zorba for Node");

  console.log(r);

} catch (e) {

  console.log("error");

}

soon I will post references in our site, 

give it a try, 

if you have problems or suggestions, please! please let us know!

-Rodolfo

[Andrey Stegno]

Why it installation requires python?