XQuery and databases - XQuery 2.0

[Liam Quin]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:08:40PM +0200, http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk wrote:
> I have several questions concerning XQuery :

> 
> 2)Is there (or will there be) possibility to make a
> database-connection just with XQuery ? So that I can give host, port,
> login, passwort, etc and XQuery is able to connect to the database ?
> Am I correct, that at the moment it is only possible if you use XQuery
> executed from java (or an other programming language, that is able to
> create a connection) ? 

This depnds on the XQuery engine you use. E.g. for my own Web site,
the Java-based XQuery engine I use is Qizx, and it does support a
way to connect to a erlational database (I'm assuming this is
what you are asking here?), but the zero-dollar version of that
product is limited to a database of only one gigabyte of XML.

> When will there be a new/newer specification of XQuery (->XQuery 2.0)
> Is it possible to get an overview of the planed changes and new
> possibilities ?

You can look at http://www.w3.org/XML/Query - I admit I'm not very
good at publishing news items, but I do try: there will be one
later today :-)

Liam


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