We are pleased to announce the next release of Zorba (beta version 0.9.2). The release of Zorba ships with new features, a stable Store API, and some performance improvements.
Specifically, we added the following functionality:

XQuery modules (as in the W3C recommendation).
group by (as in the evolving W3C XQuery 1.1 recommendation; see our examples).
try-catch (as in the […]

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Zorba’s architecture employs a modular design. Specifically, one major design goal and differentiator between other existing XQuery processors is the ability to run Zorba on top of various XML stores.
In order to allow for pluggable XML stores, Zorba defines an interface which is called the Store API. The goal of this API is to specify […]

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We are pleased to announce the first release (beta version 0.9) of Zorba. Zorba is a general purpose XQuery processor implementing in C++ the W3C family of specifications. It is not an XML database. The query processor has been designed to be embeddable in a variety of environments such as other programming languages extended with […]

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