BaseX 9.3: The Winter Edition

On 29/11/19 17:14, Christian Grün wrote: > Hello to our loyal readers of our list, > > We are glad to announce version 9.3 of BaseX, our XML framework, > database system and XQuery 3.1 processor: > > http://basex.org/ > > The focus has been put on in-depth optimizations of complex XQuery > code and faster processing of RESTXQ web applications: > > RESTXQ > - seamless streaming of custom responses to the client > - Request Module: bind attributes to current request > - better support for the OPTIONS and HEAD methods > - trace output is now stored in the database logs > - enforce premature HTTP response with web:error > - optional GZIP compression of HTTP responses > - server-side forwarding with web:forward > > USER INTERFACES > - GUI: project view: skip directories with .ignore file > - GUI: project view: do now follow symbolic links > - DBA: user panel updated to show user info > - DBA: faster processing of log entries > > STORAGE > - hot fix for replacing single documents with namespaces > - improved XQuery processing of binary resources > - ADDCACHE: faster caching of single documents > - WITHDB: less locking when using fn:doc > > XQUERY FUNCTIONS > - user:info/user:update-info: process user-specific data > - db:open-id, db:open-pre: support for multiple ids > - file:descendants: return descendant file paths > - inspect:type: return type of a value as string > - db:alter-backup: rename database backups > - xslt:transform: support for catalog files > > XQUERY PERFORMANCE > - merge of adjacent/redundant steps in paths and predicates > - removal of redundant switch, typeswitch and catch clauses > - interruption of side-effecting code (Files Modul etc.) > - fn:count: pre-evaluation of zero-or-one arguments > - faster processing of alternative steps: a/(b,c) > - rewriting of paths to simple map expressions > - inlining of values in simple map expressions > - flattening of nested simple map expressions > - rewriting of lists to union expressions > - removal of superfluous predicates > > For a more comprehensive list of added and updated features. please > check out our documentation: http://docs.basex.org/. > > Your feedback is welcome as usual. > > Have fun with the new release, > Your BaseX Team

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 11:14 AM Christian Grün <cg at basex.org> wrote: > Hello to our loyal readers of our list, > > We are glad to announce version 9.3 of BaseX, our XML framework, > database system and XQuery 3.1 processor: > > http://basex.org/ > > The focus has been put on in-depth optimizations of complex XQuery > code and faster processing of RESTXQ web applications: > > RESTXQ > - seamless streaming of custom responses to the client > - Request Module: bind attributes to current request > - better support for the OPTIONS and HEAD methods > - trace output is now stored in the database logs > - enforce premature HTTP response with web:error > - optional GZIP compression of HTTP responses > - server-side forwarding with web:forward > > USER INTERFACES > - GUI: project view: skip directories with .ignore file > - GUI: project view: do now follow symbolic links > - DBA: user panel updated to show user info > - DBA: faster processing of log entries > > STORAGE > - hot fix for replacing single documents with namespaces > - improved XQuery processing of binary resources > - ADDCACHE: faster caching of single documents > - WITHDB: less locking when using fn:doc > > XQUERY FUNCTIONS > - user:info/user:update-info: process user-specific data > - db:open-id, db:open-pre: support for multiple ids > - file:descendants: return descendant file paths > - inspect:type: return type of a value as string > - db:alter-backup: rename database backups > - xslt:transform: support for catalog files > > XQUERY PERFORMANCE > - merge of adjacent/redundant steps in paths and predicates > - removal of redundant switch, typeswitch and catch clauses > - interruption of side-effecting code (Files Modul etc.) > - fn:count: pre-evaluation of zero-or-one arguments > - faster processing of alternative steps: a/(b,c) > - rewriting of paths to simple map expressions > - inlining of values in simple map expressions > - flattening of nested simple map expressions > - rewriting of lists to union expressions > - removal of superfluous predicates > > For a more comprehensive list of added and updated features. please > check out our documentation: http://docs.basex.org/. > > Your feedback is welcome as usual. > > Have fun with the new release, > Your BaseX Team >