Recently a few new XQuery 3.0 features are added to 'trunk':
- try-catch
- switch
- group by
The additions are documented here.
We would like to announce a pre-conference day for the XML Prague conference, to be held on Friday 25th March 2011.
The pre-conference day will cover themes linked to XML Databases and XQuery, with a relaxed and flexible un-conference like approach at times. The day will consist of not only talks by subject experts, but also presentations and discussion topics from attendees.
The morning will focus exclusively on the eXist-db Open Source Native XML Database, with talks and demos from the developers of eXist-db on the latest features, performance tuning and best practice, followed by eXist-db user community presentations (see note 1).
The afternoon will cover -
- EXPath (latest developments, extensions, packaging, governance and the current state of implementations), by Florent Georges.
- XQuery Performance & Extensibility (open discussion forum), by Mohamed Zergaoui.
- XQuery 3.0 Rocks! , by William Candillon.
- Demos and Discussion (see note 1) - an un-conference, where anyone may take the floor to present, demo or discuss a topic or project.
Registration and full pre-conference details are available on our website.
Please note, that the venue is NOT the Charles University. The venue details may be found on the website above.
There will be no charge for the day, as it is kindly sponsored by eXist Solutions
(note 1) If you would like to give a presentation, demo or host a discussion either in the morning (eXist-db related), or require a period longer than 10 minutes in the afternoon 'Demos and Discussion' slot, then please let us know in advance. Likewise, if you have suggestions for talks or points of discussion, contact: info@exist-db.org.
During the last year some tips and tricks have been written. Since these were not really visible on the main page, they can be found on here
On March 25th 2011, the day before the 2011 edition of the XMLPrague conference, we'll organize again an eXist-db pre-conference day/user meetup. This year we'll combine the day together with the very interesting EXPath initiative.
The program is not ready yet but it is already possible to register on the brand new website http://xmlprague2011.preconference.info/
We are looking forward meeting you (again!)
The slides from the eXist users meeting during XML Prague are finally available. Thanks to all who helped to organize this meeting. It was a great experience and very inspiring.