Re: [xwiki-devs] [RFC] XWiki Query Language

XPath makes a lot of sense and user friendliness if we ignore its (scary) name: if we look at a wiki as a file system, XPath is perfectly usable as a file system path referencing: all data would be nodes, all metadata would be attributes. I think that, put this way, besides being clear as daylight for developers (as Thomas mentioned), it can also be easily understandable by users (as Guillaume proved). Besides that, since it is based only on a few simple rules (once axis implemented), we would be exposing less unimplemented features to the user than with our own, sql-like-but-not-quite-sql query language. As well, an XPath query language would allow us to implement the support of sheets (currently Velocity code or Groovy code) as XSL Sheets, using the wiki as one big input document. I know I would definitely love this 'feature'. Of course, I agree that SQL might be a little more natural or easier for users / developers, but I think its popularity and it being here for a longer time than XPath has much to do with it. 3. so I'm for full, clean XPath Happy coding! Anca Luca