Jon Udell of InfoWorld has been doing something called screencast for a while. I can't find a good definition of the word on the internet. Google's lucky link for the word is one of Jon's screencasts. (MSN search did turn up this O'Reilly Network article written by Jon Udell.)
Today's screencast is a demo of the Mark Logic Content Interaction Server. This screencast is of interest to me for two reasons. First, the product integrates XQuery, a subject I wrote about last year. Second, the presenter is Jason Hunter, author of the servlet book and JDOM.
One attractive aspect of XQuery is that it allows the convenient mixing of XML or HTML fragments with code. The expression-oriented nature of XQuery makes this mixing less offensive than in servlet or JSP, maybe even preferrable.
Here's an example web page and the XQuery source that generated it:
I sense a future for "XQuery on Rails."
Come on! We could all use yet another web framework (YAWF)!
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