BaseX 11: The XMLPrague 2024 Edition

On 06/06/24 13:09, Christian Grün wrote: > Dear all, > > We’ve been hard at work finalizing version 11 of BaseX, our open > source XML framework, database system, and XQuery processor. > > First, we have revised our documentation, which is now generated with > RESTXQ: > > https://docs.basex.org/ > > Next, you can now visit BXFiddle to launch XQuery and Invisible XML > online: > > https://fiddle.basex.org/ > > Finally, we have added and updated valuable features to help you > tackle your daily data challenges: > > STORAGE > • Key/value Store: Better compactification when storing values > • CSV/JSON/XML parsing: reduced memory consumption > > XQUERY > • First release with new 4.0 features > • Numerous new built-in functions (standard, maps, arrays, math) > • Updates: Multiple targets in rename/replace/insert expressions > • New custom functions: archive:refresh, validate:xsd-init, xslt:init > • Full support for Invisible XML. > > GENERAL > • GUI: Full Unicode character support > • Web Server: Upgrade to Jetty 11 > • Command-Line: New options -C, -Q, -W > • Options: WRITESTORE, writes store to disk at shutdown time > > We took the opportunity of the version jump to drop various XQuery > functions in favor of new 4.0 standard functions. Database storage has > not changed. > > A big thank you to Gunther Rademacher, who is now helping us to make > BaseX better every day. > > Thanks to all of you for your continuous support, > Have fun with the new release, > Your BaseX Team >

On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 8:26 AM Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com> wrote: > THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! > On 06/06/24 13:09, Christian Grün wrote: > > Dear all, > > We’ve been hard at work finalizing version 11 of BaseX, our open source > XML framework, database system, and XQuery processor. > > First, we have revised our documentation, which is now generated with > RESTXQ: > > https://docs.basex.org/ > > Next, you can now visit BXFiddle to launch XQuery and Invisible XML online: > > https://fiddle.basex.org/ > > Finally, we have added and updated valuable features to help you tackle > your daily data challenges: > > STORAGE > • Key/value Store: Better compactification when storing values > • CSV/JSON/XML parsing: reduced memory consumption > > XQUERY > • First release with new 4.0 features > • Numerous new built-in functions (standard, maps, arrays, math) > • Updates: Multiple targets in rename/replace/insert expressions > • New custom functions: archive:refresh, validate:xsd-init, xslt:init > • Full support for Invisible XML. > > GENERAL > • GUI: Full Unicode character support > • Web Server: Upgrade to Jetty 11 > • Command-Line: New options -C, -Q, -W > • Options: WRITESTORE, writes store to disk at shutdown time > > We took the opportunity of the version jump to drop various XQuery > functions in favor of new 4.0 standard functions. Database storage has not > changed. > > A big thank you to Gunther Rademacher, who is now helping us to make BaseX > better every day. > > Thanks to all of you for your continuous support, > Have fun with the new release, > Your BaseX Team > >

On 06/06/2024 13:09, Christian Grün wrote: > Dear all, > > We’ve been hard at work finalizing version 11 of BaseX, our open > source XML framework, database system, and XQuery processor. > > First, we have revised our documentation, which is now generated with > RESTXQ: > > https://docs.basex.org/ > >

Martin Honnen <martin.honnen at gmx.de> schrieb am Fr., 7. Juni 2024, 13:02: > Congrats on the release and many thanks for it. > > I have question on the documentation, the section > https://docs.basex.org/main/Main_Page has a section Announcements with a > first item having a link to Changelog as > https://docs.basex.org/main/Changelog but somehow trying to follow the > link I always end up on the main page again. > > > On 06/06/2024 13:09, Christian Grün wrote: > > Dear all, > > We’ve been hard at work finalizing version 11 of BaseX, our open source > XML framework, database system, and XQuery processor. > > First, we have revised our documentation, which is now generated with > RESTXQ: > > https://docs.basex.org/ > > > >

On 07/06/2024 13:20, Christian Grün wrote: > > > The changelog RESTXQ endpoint lacked an annotation to make it visible > for users that are not logged in (which was the reason why we didn’t > notice it during development). It should now be visible to everyone. >

> But it looks as if BaseX 11 doesn't support ??

On 07/06/2024 13:45, Christian Grün wrote: > > But it looks as if BaseX 11 doesn't support ?? > as a (deep) lookup operator so far. Is that right? > > Correct. The exact syntax (including key specifiers, which will be > similar to XPath axis specifiers) is still subject to discussion, so > we haven’t included it yet in our official release. >

Martin Honnen <martin.honnen at gmx.de> schrieb am Fr., 7. Juni 2024, 13:50: > > On 07/06/2024 13:45, Christian Grün wrote: > > > But it looks as if BaseX 11 doesn't support ?? > as a (deep) lookup operator so far. Is that right? > > Correct. The exact syntax (including key specifiers, which will be similar > to XPath axis specifiers) is still subject to discussion, so we haven’t > included it yet in our official release. > > Thanks, as Michael Kay was playing at XMLPrague this morning with Saxon 13 > and ?? on XDM maps and arrays I had hoped I could try some of that stuff > out with BaseX but I understand that is all work in progress and therefore > hard to include in some snapshot state in an official release. > > So I will have to wait to use it until some later release. >