In #1060, the formatting of code examples in the spec was unified. This issue is about discussing the formatting rules and (ideally) to define conventions for newly added code. If we don’t manage to ...

XQuery Injection is an attacking technique that occur when trusted data is concatenated into XQuery queries. This will allow the attacker to run any arbitrary queries that will affect the XML database ...

XPath and XQuery look similar and, in fact, XQuery is a superset. Why such a distinction has to be done? XPath requires an host language while XQuery does not. That is why it is possible to write an ...

Abstract: Streaming of XML transformations is a challenging task and only a few existing systems support streaming. Research approaches generally define custom fragments of XQuery and XPath that are ...

Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Sgonico, Italy. The term metadata is defined as “a set of data that describes and gives information about other data” [1]. Data ...

I'm writing with a question that ostensibly relates to my work. In other words, I only want to strip out all of the attributes on my "Element" elements except for "name" and "type". This is merely to ...

Before the advent of relational databases, I worked as a designer and implementer on some of the earliest hierarchical database query languages. Back then, a query language was truly a nonprocedural ...

Abstract: There has been recent interest in developing XML query languages, such as XPath and XQuery, to tap the vast amount of information represented and stored in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Back in 1998 there was no consensus that anyone would need a full-fledged XML query language. Today, XQuery is being implemented by all the major relational databases, by middleware vendors, in ...

eXist is an open source XML database that has matured into an impressive XML content search and storage system. In eXist, unlike in Apache Xindice or Berkeley DB XML, XQuery plays a central role, but ...