Hi everybody,

I hope you're doing well,

I think that creating an Ukrainian edition will not stoping putin....

I don't know why you never thought about creating a palastinian, irakian, syrian or afghan editions??? These people suffer since years or decades... Creating Ukrainian edition is just hypocrisy!!!

What i'm saying doesn't mean that i am agree with putin's war against Ukrainian people. But we're all human and nobody deserves what's going on Ukraine, palastine or Afghanistan.

Regards Mohammed Reda CHBIHI

________________________________ From: BaseX-Talk basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsmith@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 8:41:24 PM To: Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com Cc: BaseX basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] BaseX 9.7 • Ukraine Edition

Dear Christian, and the rest of the BaseX team -

many thanks for your thoughtful message. I'll echo Marco's comments, and say I'm excited to see where we go in the upcoming decades!

Best wishes, Bridger

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 8:16 AM Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.commailto:christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote: Dear all,

Just next to us, millions of people are currently being torn out of their home country, and we desperately hope that the situation in Ukraine will calm down soon. For those of you who are planning to donate money to us in the upcoming weeks, we kindly ask you this time to redirect it to Médecins Sans Frontières or any NGO of your choice.

– We are back to provide you with a new and fresh version of BaseX. It comes with a big bunch of advanced performance tweaks and optimizations and some new XQuery features:

• Support for xsl:messages via xslt:transform-report: • Support for formatting integers and dates in French • XSD validation: Improved support for XML catalogs • Remove namespaces from elements via util:strip-namespaces

For a more comprehensive list of added and updated features, look into our documentation (docs.basex.orghttp://docs.basex.org) and check out the GitHub issues (github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issueshttp://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues).

And one more pleasant announcement: Today, our company BaseX GmbH Our celebrates its 10th anniversary! Thanks to all of you who have keeping us busy with challenging projects. Rest assured we’ll be happy to continue to give you advice and support for the upcoming decades.

All the best, Your BaseX Team

Thanks, Christian, I agree.

I have done volunteer work with refugee families arriving in the United States. I have worked with Syrian refugees and Congolese refugees through World Relief here in Durham. I expect to work with Ukranian refugees. At local World Relief events, I see refugees from all of these countries, together with people who support them, all interacting with each other and sharing their stories. The victims of war have a lot in common, no matter where they are from.

Jonathan

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 6:09 AM Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Mohammed Reda,

Thanks for your reply.

I can only agree on what you are saying: We are all human.

By focusing on the Ukrainian war, we didn’t want to trivialise any single other conflict in the world now and in the past. That’s one of the reasons why donating money to large NGOs like Médecins Sans Frontières is a good idea: They are operating in many countries worldwide, including Syria, Irak, Afghanistan and Palestine, and they have helped thousands of refugees to safely arrive in Europe.

Next to that, Syrian refugees in Germany are now helping out Ukrainians, and they share similar experiences. It’s wonderful to see people supporting each other, no matter where they come from or what’s their religion.

It’s questionable for me to judge this as hypocritical, though. The easiest way is always to be quiet. I wonder if that would be better? Can we be fair at all as soon as we get specific? Maybe we should neither focus on Ukraine nor Syria nor Afghanistan, but start with Central Africa and think about the 5 million people who have died in the Second Congo War and its aftermath. Does anyone remember that war today, which had just ended 19 years ago?

Thanks again, best regards, Christian

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 9:41 AM reda chbihi chbihi@outlook.com wrote:

...

Hi everybody,

I hope you're doing well,

I think that creating an Ukrainian edition will not stoping putin....

I don't know why you never thought about creating a palastinian,

irakian, syrian or afghan editions??? These people suffer since years or decades... Creating Ukrainian edition is just hypocrisy!!!

...

What i'm saying doesn't mean that i am agree with putin's war against

Ukrainian people. But we're all human and nobody deserves what's going on Ukraine, palastine or Afghanistan.

...

Regards Mohammed Reda CHBIHI