While one might see proposals for such support to be added to XQuery quite soon, the normal standards process will guarantee a significant wait for it to be complete, since the first version is still in "last call" at the W3C.
From the latest working draft: "The XML Query Working group is working on a facility to allow XQuery expressions to be used to create and update persistent data."
/Neil
William Billingsley wrote:
Sorry to ply you with questions - I'm a little new to the XML database area.
So is XUpdate dead as a standard, or is just that particular codebase not getting updated? If it's dead as a standard, has anything particular replaced it, or just proprietary database-implementation specific solutions?
