We are pleased to announce the release of the Zorba XQuery processor in version 1.4. Besides bug fixes and performance improvements, this release comes with an extended function library and support for the XQuery 1.1 switch expression. Please take a look at the ChangeLog for more details.You can find examples for the new features that are ready to execute in […]
Zorba 1.2 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of the Zorba XQuery processor in version 1.2. This release contains mostly bug fixes and major performance improvements. Also, it contains a preliminary implementation of higher-order functions as specified in XQuery 1.1. You can download the new release from Sourceforge.
Zorba 1.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of the Zorba XQuery processor in version 1.0 implementing the following specifications:
XQuery 1.0 (with schema validation) (99.5%W3C tests success rate)
XQuery Update (97.2%)
XQueryX (98.5% success rate for XQuery 1.0 and 96.6% for XQuery Update)
Many XQuery 1.1 features (including try-catch, windowing and general FLWOR expressions)
XQuery Scripting Extension.
This release includes support for data definition and manipulation (collections, indexes and integrity […]
Zorba 0.9.8 Released
We are happy to announce that Zorba version 0.9.8 is ready for download. This release includes full support for the most recent specifications of XQuery 1.0 with Schema validation, XQuery Update Facility 1.0, partial support for XQuery 1.1 including windowing, group-by, and try-catch, and XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0. Zorba also supports non-standard features necessary for […]
XQuery in the Browser - a User Testimonial
XQiB is a plugin for Internet Explorer which allows the execution of client-side XQuery to navigate and update the browser’s internal DOM. This plugin allows to execute XQuery in the same way as JavaScript. However, the resulting code is more elegant
Running Zorba XQuery Processor on the Amazon Cloud - a User Testimonial
The Zorba XQuery processor has been designed to be embeddable in a variety of environments such as other programming languages extended with XML processing capabilities, browsers, application and database servers, XML message dispatchers, or smartphones. With this blog article, we want to point you to a possible usage scenario for such an embedabble design.
Zorba 0.9.2 Released
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.
The Zorba Store API
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 […]
Zorba 0.9.0 Released
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 […]

