In this article, I would like to explore the power of XQuery, XML and XSLT in terms of workflow based application, workflow here described in very general way , one can think of
documents moving around different-2 people, where each can perform different-2 task, processing for insurance claim, or claim from goverment spent money on minimal job guarnatee program or bug report systems are examples that comes in mind.

XML fits very well for workflow application becuse it gives very good adaptibility to integrate with any external application.

We will talk about very highly configurable enterprise application re-usability , loosely coupled services are basic requirement. Till recently XQuery has been termed as Query language but it is pure server side language like jsp and php with query language capability.
This blog is for how to create your own custom very generic work flow engine, the conceptualization is based on JBoss JBPM workflow engine but this is very light weight and minimal taken implementation. XQuery and XML Database like Exist is enough, no JAVA code is required . This blog will be the first one coming with sample examples running…Please drop a mail on chandra.dream@gmail.com for code.