Update XML files using XML query language?

[Jim Cheng]

Could I use the XML query language (and with appropriate XML query engine)
to update XML files?

I am pretty sure about querying, but not about updating.

Thanks!

Jim

[Sebastian Schaffert]

Jim Cheng wrote:

Could I use the XML query language (and with appropriate XML query engine)
to update XML files?

No, currently you can't use it as a "real" update language with insertions
and similar. You can however query the source document, alter it through
transformations/queries and write the result to the original file. That is
probably not as efficient as updating should be.:-)

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[Jim Cheng]

Thanks for your comments.
Do you know where I could find more information about altering querying
expressions to achieve the updating function?

Thank you!

Jim

"Sebastian Schaffert" <wa***@wastl.net> wrote in message
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Jim Cheng wrote:

Could I use the XML query language (and with appropriate XML query engine) to update XML files?

No, currently you can't use it as a "real" update language with insertions
and similar. You can however query the source document, alter it through
transformations/queries and write the result to the original file. That is
probably not as efficient as updating should be.:-)

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Sebastian

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13 1D 2E 4F 20 3E C9 1F 4C 57 52 87 8A 80 48 4D F5 E9 97 EC