Where can I find more information about XUpdate?
Efforts around the XUpdate language appear to be stalled. XML databases now tend to bid on proprietary extensions to the standard XQuery language (e.g. see what Tamino does, and there are talks about implementing something similar in the open source eXist database). In the future, XQuery will support standard update features.We do recognize that XUpdate has definite advantages over XSLT in certain use cases (which is why we implemented it in the first place), but it seems that the market is currently not supporting what is considered “yet another XML transformation language”.For use as a general-purpose XML update language with Orbeon Presentation Server, we now recommend using XSLT. Use either XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0 instead of using the XUpdate processor. The only place where XUpdate is not deprecated is within Page Flow, but only a subset of XUpdate is required and you can simply consider that it is part of the Page Flow syntax.This being said, our XUpdate implementation is functional
Efforts around the XUpdate language appear to be stalled. XML databases now tend to bid on proprietary extensions to the standard XQuery language (e.g. see what Tamino does, and there are talks about implementing something similar in the open source eXist database). In the future, XQuery will support standard update features. We do recognize that XUpdate has definite advantages over XSLT in certain use cases (which is why we implemented it in the first place), but it seems that the market is currently not supporting what is considered “yet another XML transformation language”. For use as a general-purpose XML update language with Orbeon Presentation Server, we now recommend using XSLT. Use either XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0 instead of using the XUpdate processor. The only place where XUpdate is not deprecated is within Page Flow, but only a subset of XUpdate is required and you can simply consider that it is part of the Page Flow syntax. This being said, our XUpdate implementation is function
