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 building complex (Web) applications (e.g. REST, email, PDF, and xqDoc function libraries).
New in this release are:
- support for XQueryX
- additional scripting support
- serialization of execution plans
- additional libraries (PDF support, email, JSon, HTML tidy)
- support for xqDoc
- hash joins
- parser support for UTF8
- partial elimination of the MAPM library
Moreover, the release contains numerous other functionality improvements, bug fixes, and performance improvements. For more details see our Release Notes.
You can try our live demo at http://try.zorba-xquery.com/ or use it in conjunction with the XQuery Eclipse plugin.
