RE: XQuery Update Facility Working Drafts

Hi,

I like the update proposal, but I have one major concern. My current
observation is that proposal allows the removal of document nodes from
an XDM instance via the "delete" operation. Assuming that my XDM
instance represents an XML database I can remove a document (node) from
my database via the "delete" operation.
On the other hand the constraints defined for the "insert" operation
seem to forbid the insertion of document nodes into an XDM instance. I
have a problem with that, because from my point of view this makes it
impossible to insert new document nodes into a database via XQuery
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Best Regards,

Thorsten Fiebig


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Robie
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: XQuery Update Facility Working Drafts


Two new Working Drafts were published today:

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/

I wrote a quick summary of the functionality provided in the following
blog entry:

http://blogs.datadirect.com/jonathan_robie/2006/01/first_working_d.html

Hope this is useful!

Jonathan

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