Yahoo Query Language (YQL) doesn’t have a direct mapping from the input variable to JavaScript for pre-processing on the server-side. But fortunately YQL provides a library that would do the trick. Here’s how it looks: Grady Pre and Post YQL Example http://www.laksmono.com/ select * from {table} where foo=’bar’; {foo}); var bar = y.xmlToJson({bar}); var baz [...]