[jact]

Xquery is what I would call a “weirdly good” language. It’s weird how good it is and how well designed it is relative to how little adoption it has.

The key thing is that since XML is a first-class datatype in XPath, trees are therefore a first class datatype. Since XPath is built into the language, you don’t need lenses or anything like that to do operations on deep tree structures. It just works. I am tempted sometimes to use it for more general projects than processing XML.

[oever]

At work, our entire website is generated with XQuery.

[jact]

Amazing! What kind of company/site is it if you mind sharing?

I’m working on a similar project for an XQuery/XML based website currently