[xquery-talk] <ANNOUNCE>Building XML Workflow Applications

[Jonathan Robie]

Joel Stewart wrote:
>
> Database update. 
>
> If XQuery is to be the SQL of XML databases, I do not expect it to be 
> perfectly portable from vendor to vendor without useful proprietary 
> extensions.  It is just I would like to have some expectations 
> regarding CRUD on the Node level (to support updating document, 
> attributes, elements, or text
>

I assume that you are aware of the ongoing work to add updates to XQuery:

XQuery Update Facility
W3C Working Draft 27 January 2006
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060127/

XQuery Update Facility Use Cases
W3C Working Draft 27 January 2006
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060127/

XQuery Update Facility Requirements
W3C Working Draft 3 June 2005
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-update-requirements-20050603/

I agree that this is really important!

Jonathan

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