norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2008/05/13/joyhttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/05/13/joy/comments.atom2012-05-23T13:06:05.031634ZComment 1 on /2008/05/13/joyhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012008-05-15T03:03:08Z2008-05-15T03:03:08ZAndrew Savikasda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I had a very similar experience -- I felt a need to get my hands dirty with MarkLogic, and so found a defined, simple XML problem to solve (in my case, a dashboard view of content in Safari Books Online using the API).

Less than 50 lines later, I had a pretty robust web app that's still running almost unchanged more than a year later. I was also definitely really that impressed. I'm still not quite sure why XQuery hasn't caught on more for web apps (especially those that consume XML and display as HTML).