Changelog

The following features have been added, updated, or removed in BaseX 13:

Commands

• Updated: PUT, BINARY PUT: Replace or ignore new resources.

Options

• Added: REPLACE: PUT: replace or ignore existing resources.

XQuery 4.0

• Added: Destructuring: Assign components of sequences, arrays and maps to variables
• Added: Node Comparisons: New operators and aliases.
• Updated: Function Declarations: local namespace prefix can be omitted.
• Updated: Dynamic Function Calls: Dynamical evaluation of function sequences.
• Updated: Methods: Annotation %method replaced by =?> operator
• Updated: Map Order: Syntax generalized to allow arbitrary expressions: { $map-entry }

Array Functions

• Added: array:sort-with.

Database Functions

• Updated: db:put, db:put-binary, db:put-value: replace or ignore new resources.

File Functions

• Updated: file:size: New $recursive parameter.

Map Functions

• Updated: map:filter, map:for-each: Positional callback argument added.
• Removed: map:of-pairs, map:pairs.

Standard Functions

• Added: fn:build-uri
• Removed: entity-expansion-limit and allow-external-entities options.

Web Functions

• Updated: web:redirect: Status parameter added.

XQuery Functions

• Updated: xquery:eval: Allow decimal places for timeout value.

REST

• Added: PUT Method: Replace or ignore new resources.