Feature Requests: Results

Dear all,

some time ago I invited you to mail us your personal wish list for new, or revised, BaseX features. This mail serves as a little summary on the requests we've got so far, along with a short status report:

QUERYING:

- Support for XQuery 1.1 (most of all: group by): currently implemented, many features have already been finalized

- More libraries: additional modules for file operations, http requests, etc. (based on EXPath, etc.): in progress

- XSLT Transformations: Andy C. kindly offered some support!

DATABASE:

- Collections functions: commands for adding/deleting documents have been revised in the latest version; feedback is welcome!

- Backups: currently implemented

- Database triggers: design in progress

- Schema validation: won't be included that soon, as BaseX works (and will stay) schema oblivious

- Retaining CData: not intended by the specs; instead, serialization parameters should be used…

TRANSACTIONS:

- Rollbacks: future work, but will definitely be implemented

- Multiple writers: will be supported at least on database or document level

- Index Updates: design in progress

INTERFACES:

- Communication with relational databases: existing standards/solutions might be investigated first to stay conformant, and support as many databases as possible (suggestions?)

- XQJ: Improved binding of Java types (might require XML schema support to be properly implemented)

GUI:

- XQuery Editor: syntax-based highlighting, code completion: design in progress

GENERAL:

- Commmercial support: on the way

- Full Documentation: always in progress, but edged out by other todos…

- Installer for Windows version: currently implemented

- Service/Daemon: already implemented (BaseX server can be run as service via -s); installer might include Windows Service

Thanks again for your contributions; please remember us if I've forgotten something. We'll keep you informed – and you can be sure that we'll always keep BaseX as light-weight as possible.

Christian

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Christian Grün University of Konstanz Department of Computer & Information Science D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Tel: +49-7531-88-4449, Fax: +49-7531-88-3577 http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~gruen