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XML Virtual Machine (former "Protva XQuery")

Reusing XML processing code in non-XML applications. At the first stage, I concentrate on XPath only.

The main operations with the tree data in programs are:

• (a) navigation over the trees,
• (b) transformation of the trees.

My work consist of:

• I claim that instead of writing code for (a) and (b) manually, it's more profitable to use XPath and XSLT, correspondingly.
• I explain how to do it.

As a part of the solution, an XML virtual machine (VM) is introduced. The VM uses Scheme as a native VM syntax and the SXML format as an interface to XML.

• Paper: "Generative XPath", XML Prague 2007
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