Adventures in Single-Sourcing XQuery and XSLT

Abstract

This is a case study of a project to make a fairly substantial collection of XQuery function libraries available in XSLT. Various approaches with different capabilities are taken: Generating a stub stylesheet with a simple import of the XQuery module. Generating a more elaborate stylesheet with bindings for the functions and variables. Semi-automatically converting XQuery to XSLT using string manipulations. Semi-automatically converting XQuery to XSLT using the XQDoc XML as an intermediate format. There is consideration of the various sticking points and tradeoffs with these approaches.