With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database. This is nuts (in a good way). Yahoo!’s intriguing universal SQL-style XML/JSONP web service interface now supports JavaScript as a kind of stored procedure language, meaning you can use JavaScript and E4X to screen-scrape web pages, then query the results with YQL.

# 29th April 2009, 10:50 pm / yql, yahoo, apis, sql, javascript, xml, jsonp, json, e4x

CouchDB, XML, and E4X. Brilliant—CouchDB now enables SpiderMonkey’s E4X support, meaning CouchDB views can easily query XML documents stored inside JSON objects using E4X syntax.

# 5th March 2008, 12:31 am / couchdb, javascript, xml, e4x, json, spidermonkey, christopher-lenz