XQuery: The XML Query Language

Chapter 14. Beyond the Standard

Introduction

This chapter discusses features that didn't make it into XQuery 1.0 but may appear in future versions. I begin by enumerating features that are likely (in my informed opinion) to change between now and the final XQuery 1.0 standard. Next, I describe how all the XQuery standards documents interrelate with one another and the rest of XML. I then speculate about some of the features that may appear in XQuery 1.1 or 2.0, and highlight two of these features: updating XML data and full-text search. Finally, this chapter ends with some of the performance benchmarks that are already beginning to spring up around XQuery.

Potential Changes

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