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BaseX 7.8 – The XMLPrague 2014 Edition

February 12, 2014

Dear all, thanks for your support! We are very pleased to announce BaseX 7.8 (the XMLPrague Edition)! The new version was designed to further increase your productivity, no matter if you develop feature-rich XQuery applications or use BaseX as a light-weight XMLDB. You can expect the following great features:

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XMLPrague – BaseX User Meeting

January 20, 2014

Dear all, we are pleased to give you the agenda for our BaseX User Meeting! As a little surprise, we can announce Michael Sperberg McQueen as additional speaker!

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BaseX 7.7.2 – Better CSV support, Fixes

October 7, 2013

A new minor release is now available; it provides the following new features and fixes: XQUERY CSV Module and serialization added JSON serializer updated (more to follow) update checks in modify clause fixed parsing of new map syntax fixed (ignoring spaces) tail call handling in built-in higher order functions fixed API

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BaseX 7.7.2

October 7, 2013

XQUERY - CSV Module and serialization added - JSON serializer updated (more to follow) - update checks in modify clause fixed - parsing of new map syntax fixed (ignoring spaces) - tail call handling in built-in higher order functions fixed API - Russian translation added (thanks to Oleksandr Shpak, Max Shamaev) - command-line arguments starting with `<` are interpreted as XQuery INDEXING - bug fixed in updatable index structure

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BaseX 7.7.1 – Bug Fixes

September 16, 2013

You are invited to check out our minor 7.7.1 release, which contains the following patches and fixes: XQUERY we have switched to the new map syntax (example: {‘key’:‘value’}) tail call optimization is now also applied to dynamic functions fn:subsequence() calls and sequence casts are better optimized original options are preserved when calling db:optimize() WEBDAV

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BaseX 7.7.1

September 16, 2013

XQUERY - new map syntax: { 'key' : 'value' } - tail call optimization for dynamic functions - optimize fn:subsequence() calls and sequence casts - db:optimize(): original options are preserved WEBDAV - return non-breakable spaces as CORE - avoid OutOfMemory exception when building large databases

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BaseX 7.7

August 7, 2013

XQUERY - Support for XQuery 3.0 is now finalized! - the Unit Module allows standardized testing of XQuery applications - the Streaming Module speeds up operations on large files - the Inspection Module provides reflection and documentation features - we have added support for XQuery collations - we have extended the Database, Archive, File and other Modules WEB/HTTP SERVICES - WebDAV has been enriched with locking features (sponsored feature!) - RESTXQ has been improved and extended CORE - improved database locking, including the use of custom lock strings - database names have got more flexible - we have new options for simplifying the creation of large databases

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