XML News from Thursday, August 7, 2008

The W3C XQuery working group has posted a new candidate recommendation of XQuery Update Facility. XQuery as it currently exists is basically just SELECT in SQL terms. XQuery Update adds INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. More specifically it is:

• upd:mergeUpdates
• upd:revalidate
• upd:applyUpdates
• upd:insertBefore
• upd:insertAfter
• upd:insertInto
• upd:insertIntoAsFirst
• upd:insertIntoAsLast
• upd:insertAttributes
• upd:delete
• upd:replaceNode
• upd:replaceValue
• upd:replaceElementContent
• upd:rename
• upd:removeType
• upd:setToUntyped

This is one of the last two pieces before XQuery 1.0 is really complete. (The other is full-text search.)