Thanks all for your feedback on our latest major release. BaseX 12.1 is available, with more new and revised features than planned.
This is what you get:
RESTXQ
- improved local locking for resources supplied via arguments
Storage
- PUT operations: replace or ignore existing resources
XQuery
- Cache Functions: Store transient data in main-memory LRU caches
- Key/Value Store: All opened stores are now kept in main memory
- faster generation and conversion of sequences and arrays
- fn:load-xquery-module: retrieve module only once at runtime
XQuery 4.0
- Function declarations: The ’local’ prefix can now be omitted
- Destructuring: let $($head, $tail) := …
- Map construction generalized: { 1: 2, $map-entries }
- Pseudo path function: $xml/get($node-name)
- New node comparators (is-not, precedes, follows, …)
- %method annotation replace by =?> operator
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