http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-29T22:50:54+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-29T22:50:54+00:002009-04-29T22:50:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/29/yql/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/yql_execute.html">With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis">apis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/e4x">e4x</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jsonp">jsonp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sql">sql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yql">yql</a></p>

2008-03-05T00:31:34+00:002008-03-05T00:31:34+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/5/aboutcmlenz/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.cmlenz.net/archives/2008/03/couchdb-xml-and-e4x">CouchDB, XML, and E4X</a></strong></p> Brilliant—CouchDB now enables SpiderMonkey’s E4X support, meaning CouchDB views can easily query XML documents stored inside JSON objects using E4X syntax. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christopher-lenz">christopher-lenz</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/couchdb">couchdb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/e4x">e4x</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey">spidermonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a></p>