From loren.cahlander at gmail.com  Tue Nov  5 06:53:00 2019
From: loren.cahlander at gmail.com (Loren Cahlander)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 09:53:00 -0500
Subject: [xquery-talk] I have been given control of xqDoc from Darin McBeath
Message-ID: <40DDBF2F-15FA-436C-BFB3-07B4A89BB2F1@gmail.com>

?Hello folks,

June of 2018, I updated the xqDoc codebase to be able to handle the additions to the language for XQuery 3.1 and most of the vendor specific language extensions.  I updated the parser to Antlr 4.

Darin McBeath, the creator of xqDoc, asked me if I wanted to take over the domain.  I accepted.  I will be updating the website http://xqDoc.org and would like to get the community?s input.

What changes would people like to see in the website?

xqDoc?s GitHub is officially at http://github.com/xqdoc 

Thank you,

Loren Cahlander


From joewiz at gmail.com  Thu Nov  7 14:14:22 2019
From: joewiz at gmail.com (Joe Wicentowski)
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:14:22 -0500
Subject: [xquery-talk] Fwd: [xsl] W3C specifications on GitHub
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For those here who aren't on the xsl-list...

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Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 1:46 PM
Subject: [xsl] W3C specifications on GitHub
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Some of you may be aware that the W3C specifications (source XML plus build
scripts as well as published HTML) were moved a while ago from the W3C
servers to GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/qtspecs.

There is of course no active development taking place on the specs, but I
do have a plan (somewhere on my TODO list) of one day publishing some
unofficial errata.

Today (thanks to Carine Bournez), the issue tracker has been activated on
the GitHub repository. So if you find errors in the specs, please capture
them. Don't expect much to happen when you do, but at least the issues will
be recorded if anyone ever decides to produce new versions of the specs,
and there may be scope for reaching online consensus if there are any
questions of interpretation.

There are also some open issues in the W3C Bugzilla archive, which I hope
to transfer: see
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=XPath%20%2F%20XQuery%20%2F%20XSLT&component=XSLT%203.0&resolution=---
in the case of XSLT 3.0

Note also that there are some draft XSLT 3.0 errata at
https://github.com/w3c/qtspecs/blob/master/errata/xslt-30/html/xslt-30-errata.html

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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From christian.gruen at gmail.com  Fri Nov 29 08:15:56 2019
From: christian.gruen at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Christian_Gr=C3=BCn?=)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 17:15:56 +0100
Subject: [xquery-talk] [ANN] BaseX 9.3: The Winter Edition
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Dear all,

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