XML syntax

• XSLT uses XML syntax. XSLT stylesheets can can be processed as data by XSLT (and other XML tools).
• The main aim of the xq2xml project was to bring this possibility of manipulating Query texts to XQuery.
• To manipulate XQuery text with an XML processing tool, need a parser that exposes the XQuery as an XML tree.
• The W3C is standardising an XML syntax for XQuery, XQueryX, but no XQuery tools were available when this project started in early 2005.