BaseX-Announce March 2011

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BaseX 6.6.1
by Christian Grün 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Dear all, thanks to everyone who gave us great feedback on BaseX 6.6, either by e-mail or directly at the XMLPrague conference! This way, we were able to finish Version 6.6.1 just one week later, which offers some exciting performance improvements and some more bug fixes: XQuery: [ADD] index rewritings added for .../text()[. = ..] syntax [ADD] optimizations of mixed axis path expressions, e.g.: //x/name() [MOD] index rewritings on collections fixed and generalized [MOD] faster evaluation of filters with pos. predicates, e.g.: $x[5] [FIX] fixed relocation of let clauses in GFLWOR expressions [FIX] trace function returned wrong original results [FIX] variables in catch clauses were discarded [FIX] HOF optimizations and fixes GUI: [FIX] language option (for Japanese, German, etc. interface) fixed To be continued, Christian BaseX Team, 2011

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BaseX 6.6: XMLPrague Release
by Christian Grün 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Dear all, we are particularly proud to announce the release of BaseX 6.6, which was released for the XMLPrague conference. It offers many new features, such as: -- full support for Higher Order Functions, introduced with XQuery 3.0 (dynamic function invocation, inlined functions, etc.), -- native support of the EXPath ZIP and HTTP specifications and other new XQuery modules, -- a new COPY Command to clone existing databases, -- revised CSV and text importers for different encoding and XML formats, -- additional XQuery 3.0 features (decimal-format and context item declarations, formatting functions, etc.), and -- numerous speedups, reduced memory consumption and stability fixes for XQuery and XQuery Update operations. Feel free to download our new release from http://basex.org, or check out our project page at GitHub for the latest sources. All the best, Christian BaseX Team, 2011

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BaseX-Announce March 2011