Database Heavyweights Weigh In on XML Standard along with other articles and conversations I've had makes it seem like XQuery is starting to heat up as an important (or at least hyped) technology.
Does anyone else care about XQuery. Does anyone want to see a jaxen-esque XQuery engine?
An open source XQuery implementation at this point would probably be like the SARS virus, and infect many of the open source xml related projects. I could envision it to be in wide circulation quickly.