XQIB brings the power, elegance and simplicity of XQuery to all browser users and developers. XQIB is a browser plugin which embeds Zorba. This plugin allows to execute XQuery in the same way you would execute JavaScript. Writing some functionality can be done in two simple steps:

  1. Create a <script/> tag with the type “text/xqueryp” in the head of the document
  2. Declare and implement a new function “main” in the local namespace, which will be executed after the page has loaded.

So a simple hello world looks like this:

<?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=”utf-8″?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml“>

   <head>

      <script type=”text/xqueryp”>

         declare function local:main() {

            browser:alert(//H1)

         };

      </script>

   </head>

   <body>

      <h1>Hello, world!</h1>

   </body>

</html>

 

For more information, please visit the XQIB Homepage at http://www.xqib.org/.