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Updates in XQuery

Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com>
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ABSTRACT

Traditional database query languages allow data to be updated using operations like insert, delete, and replace. This talk presents a proposal for updates in XQuery, together with a number of concrete use cases showing how it is used for everyday operations, a grammar that is compatible with the existing XQuery grammar, and a set of rules that ensure incompatible updates are not specified in a query.

The language presented has been developed together with Don Chamberlin of IBM, Daniela Florescu of Propel, Michael Rys of Microsoft, and Peter Fankauser of GMD-IPSI, and Patrick Lehti of Software AG, but has not, at the time of writing, been accepted as in-scope for XQuery Level 1. In the world we live in, there is no way of knowing what its status will be by December!

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Biography

Jonathan Robie
R&D Fellow
Software AG
Durham
North Carolina
U.S.A.
Email: jonathan.robie@softwareag.com

Jonathan Robie is an editor of the W3C XQuery language and several other W3C XML Query documents, co-inventor of the Quilt query language, and co-inventor of XQL query language. He has been on the architectural team for three different XML databases or repositories, an editor of the W3C DOM Level 1 and Level 2 specifications, an editor of the W3C XML Schema Formal Description, and an editor of the W3C XML Query Requirements and Use Cases documents. Jonathan works as a Research Fellow at Software AG, and advises their development teams on issues related to query languages, W3C standards and software architectures.