[xquery-talk] [ANN] Xidel 0.9.8 released

Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsmith at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 09:26:57 PDT 2018


Hi Benito -

Congratulations on the new release! Xidel has been a great and helpful
utility - thanks for the announcement.

Best,
Bridger

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Benito van der Zander <benito at benibela.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Xidel is a small command line XQuery interpreter to run queries on
> downloaded X/HTML pages or JSON-APIs. It supports XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0 +
> JSONiq expressions, compatibility modes for older XPath/XQuery versions as
> well as CSS 3 selectors and custom pattern matching.
>
> The 0.9.8 version improves various things:
>
>
> - Cookie handling follows RFC 6265 rather than sending all cookies to all
> servers.
> - add t:siblings-header/siblings elements to pattern matcher to match
> certain element siblings regardless of their ordering (e.g. table columns).
> - add functions x:call-action, x:has-action, x:get-log, x:clear-log to
> give programmatic access to multipage templates and variable changelog.
> - add --module, --module-path parameters to load XQuery modules into
> (xpath) queries and properly resolve relative paths for module imports.
> - fix system(), file:exists, file:move (override), file:path-to-uri on
> Windows
> - further minor bug fixes and performance improvements
>
>
> You can learn more on the homepage here: http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.
> html
>
>
> Benito
>
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