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This is a bug fix release for XQilla 2.3, including the ability to compile against Xerces-C 3.1.3, and improved Windows support.

Change Log:
* Fixed a localization bug parsing floating point numbers.
* Added Visual Studio 2012 projects.
* Added Visual Studio 2008 projects.
* Removed Visual Studio 2005 and 2003 projects.
* Modified to build against Xerces-C 3.1.3.

This is a Windows bug fix release for XQilla 2.3.

Change Log:
* XQilla can now be built with Visual Studio 2013.

This is a bug fix release for XQilla 2.3, including the ability to compile against Xerces-C 3.1.2, and a small number of miscellaneous fixes.

Change Log:
* Modified to build against Xerces-C 3.1.2.
* Added Visual Studio 2010 projects.
* Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect query results when combining
nested expressions and functions.
* Fixed a crash that could happen when XQilla is built with Visual
Studio 2010 or higher.

XQilla 2.3 is a major release that includes partial XQuery 3.0 support,
including higher order functions, relaxed FLWOR syntax, and private functions.
The XQuery Full Text syntax has been updated to the latest specification, and
many optimizations have been made.

Change Log:
* Added support for XQuery 3.0 version declarations.
* Updated to support XQuery 3.0 higher order functions, including
partial function application, function coercion, and function item
SequenceType checking.
* Implemented XQuery 3.0 FLWOR clause ordering.
* Implemented XQuery 3.0 FLWOR count clause.
* Implemented XQuery 3.0 extended typeswitch syntax.
* Implemented XQuery 3.0 namespace test and constructor.
* Implemented XQuery 3.0 private functions.
* Updated to the latest W3C XQuery Full Text syntax.
* Implemented Unicode word bounding and sentence bounding for XQuery
Full Text tokenization.
* Implemented XQuery Full Text case options.
* Implemented XQuery 1.0 second edition semantics for module import.
* Added the xqilla:explain() function to return the query plan of an
expression.
* Added xqilla:words() and xqilla:sentences() to perform Unicode word
and sentance boundary detection.
* Added xqilla:drop().
* Rewrote a number of the built-in XQuery functions in XQuery itself.
* Implemented constant time indexing into materialized sequences.
* Improved the efficiency of the tail call optimization code.
* Optimized boolean operators.
* Optimized DOMDocument::evaluate() calls.
* Fixed various bugs in static typing.
* Fixed various memory leaks in the DOM 3 API, and regular expressions.
* Fixed a bug that caused a crash when using huge integers.
* Modified to build against Xerces-C 3.1.1
* Added Visual Studio 2010 support.
* Build fix for AIX 5.3.
* Build fix for the clang++ compiler.
* Build fix for GCC 4.6.

This is a bug fix release for XQilla 2.2, including the ability to compile against Xerces-C 3.1.0, and a small number of miscellaneous fixes.

Change Log:
* Modified to build against Xerces-C 3.1.0
* Modified the DOM 3 API to only orphan grammars if PSVI is enabled.
* Fixed computed attribute constructors not to use the default element
namespace for names.
* Modified node serialization to generate prefixes for attributes with
no prefix but in a namespace.
* Modified node serialization to use existing prefixes if possible.
* Fixed an unknown exception during certain update operations.
* Build fix for Sun Workshop 6 compiler.
* Build fix for older GCC.
* Added maintainer mode (--enable-maintainer-mode) to rebuild build
related files.

This is a bug fix release for XQilla 2.2, including a small number of miscellaneous fixes.

Change Log:
* Work around for a Xerces-C bug in DOMDocument::importNode()
that resulted in badly copied prefixes using XQuery Update.
* Fixed a segfault in the DOM 3 API by orphaning Xerces-C
Grammar correctly.
* Fixed optimization of count(), exists(), and empty() based on
static type if the argument uses doc() or collection().
* Fixed a bug that caused a crash when using "order by" in some
circumstances.
* Fixed query/module static-typing to also (re-)static type the
modules it imports.
* Fixed a bug in fn:codepoint-equal().

This is a bug fix release for XQilla 2.2. This release includes fixes for xlC compiler issues, a SIGBUS on sparc architectures, casting issues between Xerces-C 2.8 and 3.0, Windows memory bug when resolving a document or collection, a segfault when parsing a document in memory, transforming document nodes, and other fixes. This release also updates libtool to version 2.2.6.

Change Log:

* Fixed XQillaDocumentImpl::cloneNode() to return an instance of XQillaDocumentImpl.
* Fixed XPath 2.0 so that it doesn't recognize entities in string literals.
* Fixed a bug in the constant folding identity transforms for arithmetic expressions.
* Fixed a bug in the undefined context item check.
* Fixed the transform expression to copy document nodes rather than dissolving them.
* Fixed a bug in the static typing of external functions.
* Fixed a bug in fn:matches() with a zero-length string as the first argument.
* Fixed a couple of bugs in the debug API, and made it report exit() and end() events correctly.
* Fixed variable inlining so that variables aren't inlined into loops.
* Fixed a segfault when parsing a document from a memory buffer.
* Fixed a bug in XQC_Implementation->parse_document_file() that caused parsing to always fail.
* Workaround a bug in Xerces-C that can cause corrupted memory when deleting a mutex.
* Fixed a bug related to unsigned int/XMLSize_t type difference between Xerces-C 2.8 and 3.0.
* Fixed alignment on sparc architectures that could cause a SIGBUS crash.
* Fixed a Windows memory bug involving the URI used in resolving a document or collection.
* Fixed Windows compile warnings related to Xerces-C types.
* Updated libtool version to 2.2.6.
* Fixed some compiler issues related to the xlC compiler.

This is the 2.2 release of XQilla. This release adds a debugger and
debugging API, partial support for XSLT 2.0, and a prototype
implementation of higher order functions for XQuery.

XQilla is an XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 implementation written in
C++ and based on Xerces-C. It implements the DOM 3 XPath API, as well
as having it's own more powerful API. It conforms to both the XQuery
and XPath 2.0 W3C recommendations.... read more

This is a bug fix release for XQilla 2.1. This release
includes compilation fixes for 64 bit and Solaris, as well as
several DOM 3 API related bugs.

XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 implementation written in
C++ and based on Xerces-C. It implements the DOM 3 XPath API,
as well as having it's own more powerful API. It conforms to
the both the XQuery and XPath 2.0 W3C recommendations.

Change Log:
* Fixed a bug in static resolution of replace expressions
* Fixed the Xerces-C data model layer to work correctly with DOM Level 1
elements and attributes.
* Worked around a Xerces-C bug that resulted in exceptions when using
the DOM 3 API with certain schemas.
* Fixed a 64 bit compilation problem.
* Fixed a Solaris compilation problem.

This is the 2.1 release of XQilla. This release adds support
for querying non-XML data sources, including HTML via
TidyLib, JSON and plain text files.

XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 implementation written in
C++ and based on Xerces-C. It implements the DOM 3 XPath API,
as well as having it's own more powerful API. It conforms to
the both the XQuery and XPath 2.0 W3C recommendations.

Change log:
* Added the xqilla:parse-json() and xqilla:serialize-json() extension
functions to parse and serialize JSON.
* Added the xqilla:parse-html() function which uses HTML Tidy to parse
HTML into XML. The function will not be compiled if TidyLib is not
found.
* Added fn:unparsed-text(), a function from XSLT 2.0 which can fetch a
URL and return it as a string.
* Added an xqilla:time() function which outputs the time taken to
evaluate it's argument.
* Added src/xercesc_content_type.patch which should be applied
against Xerces-C 2.8 to fix an HTTP connection bug.
* Added src/xercesc_regex.patch which should be applied against Xerces-C
2.8 to fix a regular expression bug in fn:replace().
* Added project files for Visual C++ 8, including 64 bit build
targets.
* Changed the default XQuery Update revalidation mode to LAX.
* Fixed a bug in the lexing of element and attribute content in
queries that incorrectly rejected certain Unicode characters.
* Fixed a bug in external functions when used with modules.
* Fixed a memory leak in the FastXDMURIResolver.
* Fixed a segfault in XPath2ResultImpl if the results were only
partially navigated.
* Fixed a bug in XPath2ResultImpl where XQExceptions weren't being
turned into XQillaExceptions.
* Fixed XQilla to compile using Visual C++ 6.
* Fixed compilation flags to work under HPUX.

This is the 2.0 release of XQilla. XQilla is now available under the Apache
License v2, a more permissive open source license. This release also implements
document projection, a technique for reducing memory usage and increasing query
speed.

XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 implementation written in C++ and based on
Xerces-C. It implements the DOM 3 XPath API, as well as having it's own more
powerful API. It conforms to the both the XQuery and XPath 2.0 W3C
recommendations.... read more

This is the 1.1 release of XQilla, that introduces some major new features
including XQuery Update (Last Call Working Draft 28 August 2007) support,
streaming event output, and speed and memory consumption improvements.

XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 implementation written in C++ and
based on Xerces-C. It implements the DOM 3 XPath API, as well as having
it's own more powerful API. It conforms to the both the XQuery and XPath 2.0
W3C recomendations.... read more

This is the 1.0.1 patch release of XQilla, that fixes a few minor bugs discovered since version 1.0.

XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 implementation written in C++ and based on Xerces-C. It implements the DOM 3 XPath API, as well as having it's own more powerful API. It conforms to the W3C proposed recomendation of XQuery and XPath 2.0.

Change log:
* Fixed fn:concat() to accept more than 51 arguments.
* Fixed module parsing, to use the correct language enumeration when
parsing. Output modules in the query plan.
* Fixed a race condition in the parsing of function signatures.
* Fixed parse errors in the DOM3 API, which were being thrown as
XQException instead of XQillaException. [1626534]
* Fixed the building of shared libraries under Cygwin, by adding
-no-undefined to the libtool line in the Makefile. [1639669]
* Fixed a bug in the static typing of user defined functions, that
could result in incorrect errors.

XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library and command line interpreter, written in C++ and implemented on top of Xerces-C.

Release features:
* Implements W3C Proposed Recommendation for XQuery and XPath 2.0
* Implements DOM 3 XPath API
* Provides a more powerful native API

XQilla can be downloaded from it's Sourceforge download page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=152021

Project documentation can be found here:... read more