[xquery-talk] XQuery 2.0, parallel XQuery execution

[Xavier Franc]

may I add
- a template mechanism analogous with XSLT templates

  Currently (in XQuery1) it is possible to write recursive descent
  transformations using typeswitch and functions, but it
  is neither very convenient nor very modular/maintainable.

 Adding this feature to XQuery, together with a group-by,
 would remove its main inferiorities wrt XSLT2.

> From my notes, the "what XQuery needs" part of the talk:
>
>Group by
>Duplicate elimination
>Try/catch and error handling
>Invoking web services
>Update language
>Integrity constraint language
>
>Bob Foster
>