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[ANN] BaseX 6.5, Homepage Relaunch

• From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
• To: XML Development <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:40:45 +0100

Dear all,

We are excited to announce Version 6.5 of BaseX, which offers the
following new features:

= Storage
- Text compression, shrinking text nodes up to 50%
- Enhanced collection support
- Backup functionality
- Built-in importers: HTML, Text, CSV

= XQuery
- XQuery 3.0 features, including GROUP BY and SWITCH statements
- New file, HTTP, database and full-text functions
- Built-in Lucene and Snowball Stemming for XQuery Full Text

= GUI
- New TreeView visualization
- Improved database management

= APIs
- JAX-RX now supports hierarchical paths and external variables
- Language Bindings extended with query iterators

Thanks to your continuous feedback on BaseX! You can be sure that the
project itself will remain Open Source, no matter what.

We are looking forward to your responses,

Christian
BaseX Team 2011
http://basex.org/