Murray Altheim wrote: > Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > > > > On dbXML mail archive I found some discussion of support for update in > > XQuery. Is there any chance that it will incorporate dbXML XUpdate ? It is > > very important to have one standard language for query and manipulation like > > SQL in RDBMS world. > > My knowledge of the W3C XML Query Working Group would tend to suggest that > XUpdate is not in consideration, though it's been months since I paid any > attention to their mail list. They're very far along in their process and > the W3C does not typically take open source projects under their wing > given that it's a vendor consortium and this would require that a specific > vendor champion XUpdate. It's possible, but pretty unlikely.
The XQuery WG does have a proposal on the table for a very simple update syntax for XQuery, but it's a back-burner thing that will wait until after XQuery is complete to get any attention at all, which means it'll be quite a long time before you see it. -- Tom Bradford - http://www.tbradford.org Developer - Apache Xindice (formerly dbXML) Maintainer - jEdit-Syntax Java Editing Bean
