While trying out 8.0-SNAPSHOT I get something strange.  There is an exists query which gives true where the answer should be false.  There is no dataset with @name='DiMu__abm', yet exists gives "true".  The subsequent query shows what is actually in the XML.

> xquery exists(doc('narthex_dimcon/narthex_dimcon.xml')/narthex-datasets/dataset[@name='DiMu__abm'])
true
Query executed in 5.14 ms.
> xquery doc('narthex_dimcon/narthex_dimcon.xml')
<narthex-datasets>
  <dataset name="RCE_Beeldbank__adlib">
    <origin>
      <type>origin-drop</type>
      <who>?</who>
      <time>2014-09-23T10:05:34.436+02:00</time>
    </origin>
    <status>
      <state>state-saved</state>
      <time>1411460347570</time>
      <percent>0</percent>
      <workers>0</workers>
      <error/>
    </status>
    <delimit>
      <recordRoot>/adlibXML/recordList/record</recordRoot>
      <uniqueId>/adlibXML/recordList/record/priref</uniqueId>
      <recordCount>401960</recordCount>
    </delimit>
    <namespaces>
      <xsi>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</xsi>
    </namespaces>
    <harvest/>
  </dataset>
</narthex-datasets>
Query executed in 3.03 ms.

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