RE: XQuery Update Facility Working Drafts

The insert statement as currently defined needs a node as insertion
target. Since you cannot insert a document node into any other node, you
cannot insert it using the insert statement. You should use a mechanism
that is specific to your environment to insert documents. E.g. in SQL
you would use the SQL INSERT or UPDATE statement to insert the XML
document into a cell...

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
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> Fiebig, Thorsten
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:22 PM
> To: Jonathan Robie; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: XQuery Update Facility Working Drafts
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> Hi,
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> 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
> update.
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> Best Regards,
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> Thorsten Fiebig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
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> Jonathan Robie
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: XQuery Update Facility Working Drafts
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> Two new Working Drafts were published today:
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> XQuery Update Facility
> W3C Working Draft 27 January 2006
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060127/
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> XQuery Update Facility Use Cases
> W3C Working Draft 27 January 2006
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060127/
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> I wrote a quick summary of the functionality provided in the following
> blog entry:
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>
http://blogs.datadirect.com/jonathan_robie/2006/01/first_working_d.html
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> Hope this is useful!
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> Jonathan
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