Jim Melton

Oracle Corp.

Jim has been the SQL standard editor for more than two decades, publishing five books covering various aspects of the SQL standard along the way. He helped develop SQL/XML, specifying technology for effectively using SQL and XML together.

Jim is a co-chair of the W3C’s XML Query Working Group and an editor or co-editor of several of the Recommendations and other specifications associated with XQuery: Functions & Operators, XQueryX, XQuery/XPath Full Text, and the XQuery Update Facility. In 2006, he published (with Stephen Buxton) “Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in Context”.

Jim is a frequent speaker at conferences on various subjects related to the Web and its underlying technologies. His technology interests include SQL and XQuery, but also RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.

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11:45 Wednesday, 7 May 2008

XQuery Update: An Update

Data and databases Goldsmiths 3

Jim Melton (Oracle Corp.)

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The XQuery Update Facility is an eagerly awaited W3C standard for updating XML data. This important addition to the XPath/XQuery/XSLT suite of XML processing languages, in preparation for almost three years, has almost reached final Recommendation status. An example-driven close examination of the language, this talk also looks into likely further enhancements. Read more.