[Exist-open] Another CVS Update

[Wolfgang M. <me...@if...>]

Happy new year to all. I just submitted all the changes I made during the 
Christmas holidays. 

* eXist now passes 92% of the XQuery use-cases (according to the bumblebee 
test harness). Many bugs and irregularities have been fixed. The remaining 8% 
are mostly minor problems (formatting of floating point numbers). 2 use-cases 
fail due to missing features.

* Added support for XQuery library modules. New modules can be provided in 
XQuery _or_ Java (see updated documentation)

* Added Java bindings to XQuery (following the conventions introduced by xt 
and saxon).

* The XQuery engine now properly resolves forward references in function 
declarations.

* New XQueryServlet which works similar to the XQueryGenerator, but doesn't 
depend on Cocoon.

* New functions in the HTTP module: create-session, encode-url, request-uri, 
redirect-to.

* New transform function to apply a (cached) XSL stylesheet to XQuery output.

* Most parts of the documentation have been updated.

* New examples for XQuery development.

* Modified XML-RPC interface: the optional output properties (for indentation, 
xinclude expansion, output encoding ...) have been moved to a single 
hashtable argument in all methods. Some of the old methods are still 
provided, but should not be used any longer. The namespaces argument 
introduced in some methods has been removed (namespaces can be specified with 
XQuery's "declare namespace" in the query).

* The provided Perl and Java examples for XMLRPC access have been tested to 
work with the current interface.

I will try to finish the docs and fix some of the remaining bugs within the 
next days.

Best wishes,

Wolfgang