Re: XUpdate

S Woodside wrote:
> I'm considering XUpdate instead of XSLT for use to add elements to an
> existing XML instance document. I'll have an XPath and the element
> content as params, and the instance as input. I think XSLT would work
> OK, but it seems as though XUpdate offers a lot of convenience features
> I would have to write myself in XSLT to do the same thing.
>
> However, I noticed that XUpdate had active development and chatter on
> the mailing list until early 2002 and then it died away. Is this a dead
> technology? Should I roll my own in XSLT instead?

We implemented XUpdate in 4Suite [1]. It works great, and if you're also using
4Suite's repository features to write a web application in XSLT, we have an
XSLT extension element that invokes an XUpdate processor on that element's
content, to modify documents in the repository.