anonymous324

PostgreSQL isn't exciting. It's boring, with roots in the Berkeley Ingress project from the mid 80s. Which is why 10 years ago, so many HNers went with trendy NoSQL data stores instead, even though they lost data. Data loss is very exciting, and PostgreSQL is very boring. This preference for what's exciting and trendy over what's old and proven is a large reason why so much software today sucks.

Though I've never used Xidel, I came across it when researching XPath 2/3, and was very impressed that anyone managed to implement these massive, complicated specs all by themselves.

The major OSS XML libs, including LibXML2 and Xerces, do not implement what Xidel does, and neither to some proprietary libs like MSXML.