Hello, Stefan Manegold wrote: [snip]
About multidocument support: yes, it will come; we're working on it. We plan to have a new release ready by early autumn that will support both efficient handling of multiple documents and XUpdate.
We are very much interested in "real life" XQuery usage scenarios, hence, your info about the need for (efficient) multi-document support is indeed very valuable for us.
Right now, the latest development version in CVS does contain the necessary changes for efficient handling of multiple documents only "under the hood", but does not yet provide any means for users to indeed exploit this functionality. Please stay tuned. We'll keep let you know, once we have a "usable" development version.
Thanks you for the very friendly and informative answer! I'm itching to start using the power of MonetDB to build interesting XML applications. I intend to make it easy to use from Python, and combinable with lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml) which covers many other Python XML usecases. So, eagerly awaiting further news! Regards, Martijn