RE: [xml-dev] defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Jim Melton' <>, 'Rakshan Murthy' <>,
Date
2006-04-10T19:07:00Z
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc
> >XQuery update extensions are on the way, but not there yet. 
> And it's not an
> >XML format, unfortunately.
> 
> Not to worry.  One of the requirements of the XQuery Update 
> Facility is 
> that it share the XML syntax that XQuery itself provides (called 
> XQueryX).  

I did think of mentioning XQueryX. But I suspect the reason that they want
an XML format is that they want, for example, to be able to logically merge
two "diff" files, and I would think that would be mightily difficult to do
if the format is XQueryX.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/