Origami presentation XML Amsterdam

Am 30.09.2015 00:50 schrieb "Marc van Grootel" <marc.van.grootel at gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Anyone on the list coming to Amsterdam the 6th of November? We may have > some beers together. > > I will (finally) be presenting on the Origami templating library. I'm > still working on it over on Github (in the unstable branch). After a pause > in development it was almost completely rewritten. I intend to cut a new > release just before the conference. > > Here's the anouncement I made for the conference website. > > XQuery 3.1 is still a candidate for recommendation by the W3C. > Nevertheless there are already various implementations ready for use today. > The introduction of maps and arrays, and the availability of functional > weaponry such as fold and apply may change the way you write XQuery > applications. You can still wield the trusty weapons of XPath and the FLWOR > expression while, at the same time, adopting a more functional style of > programming. > > Origami is an ongoing exploration of templating in XQuery and it makes > heavy use of this functional style. It started with a quest for a more > XSLT-like transformation capability and recently took a nice turn with the > adoption of a flavor of micro-XML, with a heavy reliance on maps and > arrays. Origami's unfolding design tries to honour principles of simplicity > and composability. With Origami I aim to decomplect, or disentangle, > several aspects common to templating problems and offer them in a powerful > library using a couple of simple abstractions. > > With some practical code examples I will demonstrate how to use Origami to > implement different templating styles. > > --Marc >