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BaseX 8.1: The Spring Edition
by Christian Grün 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

Dear all, Our traditional spring edition has just been released! We are delighted to present BaseX 8.1, our XML database and XQuery 3.1 processor, which gives you the following new features: XQUERY - efficient Finger Tree algorithm for arrays - prof:variables() outputs list of currently bound variables - new higher-order functions: hof:scan-left, hof:take-while WEB APPLICATIONS - the Web Module offers convenience functions for building web apps - RESTXQ: %input annotation; input-specific content-type parameters OPTIONS - RESTPATH: specify server path for queries and command scripts - IGNORECERT: ignore untrusted certificates when connecting to servers COMMAND-LINE - Bind input strings to the query context with -I You find the new release at http://basex.org. We are looking forward to your feedback, Christian BaseX Team

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BaseX User Meetup: Slides and Videos
by Christian Grün 22 Feb '15

22 Feb '15

Dear all, It was great to meet many of you live in Prague! The slides and videos of our BaseX User Meetup are now online: http://files.basex.org/publications/xmlprague/2015.html Have fun, Christian BaseX Team

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BaseX 8.0: The XMLPrague 2015 Edition
by Christian Grün 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Dear XML aficionados, We are proud to present you Version 8.0 of BaseX, your XML database system and XQuery processor (http://basex.org)! It is being released in alignment with the XML Prague 2015 Conference. We provide you with quite a bunch of new and exciting features: XQUERY - Support for XQuery 3.1 is nearly complete - We switched to a new default serialization ("adaptive") - Index rewritings have been improved, more precise cost estimations - MIXUPDATES option: update items and return results at the same time - New modules: Array and User Module - New annotations: %basex:inline, %basex:lazy - 13 of our modules were updated and extended WEB APPLICATIONS - DBA: Database Administration in the Browser - RESTXQ: regular expressions in paths, support for quality factors - AUTHMETHOD option: choose between Basic and Digest authentication STORAGE - Faster document index (storing paths to all XML documents) - Replace documents in-place whenever possible - Updatable index structures now take much less space - AUTOOPTIMIZE option: optimize after each update SECURITY - Revised user management; users are stored as XML - Digest authentication, Salted SHA256 - Clients in various languages updated GUI - Better code completions The documentation is available at http://docs.basex.org. We are looking forward to your feedback, Christian BaseX Team

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XMLPrague: 11 Days Left
by Christian Grün 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi all, In 11 days, our BaseX User Meeting will take place [1]! If you haven't decide to come… Just come ;) It turned out we still have one free speaker slot. If you are working on something that could be interesting for others as well, don't hesitate to give me a note! Looking forward to meeting you, Christian [1] http://lanyrd.com/2015/basex/

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BaseX Users Meetup, XML Prague 2015
by Christian Grün 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

Hi all, We are pleased to officially announce our BaseX Users Meetup 2015, collocated with the XML Prague Conference. It will take place on Friday, 14:30 – 18:00. The current sessions and the list of speakers are listed on Lanyrd and, soon, the conference site: http://lanyrd.com/2015/basex http://www.xmlprague.cz/pre-conference-friday XML Prague continues to be the biggest, most interesting and, at the same time, very affordable XML event in Europe. If you haven't gone there yet, this is your chance! Looking forward to seeing you; merry BaseXMas, Christian

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Re: [basex-announce] [basex-talk] BaseX 8.0: DBA
by Christian Grün 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

Hi Andy, > It does not show the name of the logged in user. True! It now does. > Indeed I have previously looked to get this information > and it does not seem to be available via any BaseX function. Is this > intentional? Information on the logged in user is stored in a session variable, which I am requesting via the Session Module (see global.xqm and users.xqm). In the long term, I would like to bring database and RESTXQ users closer together, as they have many similar properties. Commands like SHOW USERS or KILL could then be extended to also work for users that are registered via HTTP sessions. I have just uploaded a new snapshot. In the "Users" panel, under "Browser Sessions", all users are now listed who are currently logged in in the DBA. Cheers, Christian

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Re: [basex-announce] [basex-talk] BaseX 8.0: DBA
by Christian Grün 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Thanks all for the first DBA feedback. Will be incorporated before the official release. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Andy Bunce <bunce.andy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > The DBA looks good. > One comment inspired by a quick play with it. It does not show the name of > the logged in user. Indeed I have previously looked to get this information > and it does not seem to be available via any BaseX function. Is this > intentional? > > /Andy > > On 11 December 2014 at 23:30, Christian Grün <christian.gruen(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> This is yet another update on the next, upcoming version of BaseX: >> >> We have added a new database administration (DBA) web frontend to our >> ZIP and EXE distributions. It allows you to create and administrate >> databases, evaluate queries in realtime, view log files, manage users, >> and more. It was completely written with XQuery and RESTXQ, apart from >> a few lines of Javascript code. >> >> The new frontend was added due to the known shortcomings of the Java >> GUI, which cannot be used to run queries on other servers. As a >> consequence, we have removed the server dialog from the desktop >> application. We hope that DBA will help you to write your own web >> applications based on RESTXQ! >> >> Some more infos and design goals can be found in our Wiki [1]. >> >> Have fun, we are looking forward to your feedback, >> Christian >> >> PS: NO, the web frontend does not provide all the cute features of the >> desktop gui, like the treemap, scatterplot, syntax highlighting, etc… >> But it may provide some of them in future. Your contributions are >> welcome! >> >> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/DBA

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BaseX 8.0: DBA
by Christian Grün 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Hi all, This is yet another update on the next, upcoming version of BaseX: We have added a new database administration (DBA) web frontend to our ZIP and EXE distributions. It allows you to create and administrate databases, evaluate queries in realtime, view log files, manage users, and more. It was completely written with XQuery and RESTXQ, apart from a few lines of Javascript code. The new frontend was added due to the known shortcomings of the Java GUI, which cannot be used to run queries on other servers. As a consequence, we have removed the server dialog from the desktop application. We hope that DBA will help you to write your own web applications based on RESTXQ! Some more infos and design goals can be found in our Wiki [1]. Have fun, we are looking forward to your feedback, Christian PS: NO, the web frontend does not provide all the cute features of the desktop gui, like the treemap, scatterplot, syntax highlighting, etc… But it may provide some of them in future. Your contributions are welcome! [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/DBA

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BaseX 8.0: Updates, User Management
by Christian Grün 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi all, Since a while now, BaseX 8.0 is on the agenda, and we are busy finishing all the features requested by you and ourselves. As promised, there will be no changes in the database layout: You can easily move on to 8.0 without needing to migrate your existing data. However, we have decided to discard the old user management in favor of a more up-to-date architecture [1]. Here are some of the most prominent changes: • An XQuery User Module allows you to manage users via XQuery • Permissions can now be manually edited (all credentials will be stored as XML) • Instead of md5, we now use salted sha256 hashes • Additionally, digest hashes are used for the new HTTP Digest Authentication, and for the existing client bindings (cram-md5 was dropped) As a result, credentials of existing databases cannot be migrated to 8.0. Moreover, the existing language bindings will need to be updated. The changes are marginal, so it shouldn't be a big deal [2]. If you want to help us, we welcome you to update your favorite bindings to the latest standard! And as you can guess… The latest snapshot is online [3]. Thanks for your attention, Christian PS: Our BaseX Users Meetup has been confirmed. It will be attached to the XMLPrague conference, and it will take place February 13 in the afternoon [4]. More to come! [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/User_Management [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Clients [3] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest [4] http://lanyrd.com/2015/basex/

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Upcoming: XMLPrague 2015
by Christian Grün 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Dear all, In around three months, the next edition of XMLPrague will take place, and it will be the fourth time that we'll be organizing a Pre-Conference Meeting on Friday, February 13. As you all do so many exciting things with BaseX, we would be more than interested to have some of you as speakers! We are very thankful to those of you who have already talked on one of our previous meetings; it has been your contributions that made the past event so awesome! Please don't hesitate and tell us if you are interested in presenting your work to the members of the community. If you have talked before, you are of course invited as well. More to come, Christian

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