BaseX 6.51 (beta) released

We are glad to announce our latest minor release to be available for download.

Thanks to constant feedback from our Mailing List we are glad to announce the latest minor release to be available for download. We plan to publish a new minor version of BaseX every two or three weeks in the future, to save you some compile time.

We have been working on improving the CSVParser, our Graphical XQuery Editor our Full-Text-Features and many more features. A changelog can be found just below. Your feedback is welcome as usual.

Click here to download basex.jar (Build: 6.5.1 beta, 2011/02/02).

New Features

Example:
SET PARSER csv
SET PARSEROPT enumerate=yes,attributes=no
CREATE DB db /path/to/csv/files

The following features have been modified

CSV Parsing (Javadoc)

Example:

SET PARSER csv
SET PARSEROPT separator=comma,format=simple,header=no
CREATE DB db /path/to/csv/files

The following issues have been fixed

• [MOD] Free block management
• [MOD] Storage: Serialization of ParserProp generalized; trivia
• [MOD] XQuery: better error feedback for Java bindings.
• [MOD] dropdb added
• [MOD] globs extended to accept “*.” syntax; tests added
• [MOD] test threads with start & join
• [ADD] parser options in parsing tab in create database & add documents