BaseX 8.1 – Spring Edition

Our traditional spring edition has just been released! We are delighted to present BaseX 8.1, 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
• better support for Tomcat deployments

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

The documentation is available at http://docs.basex.org. We are looking forward to your feedback!