RE: [xml-dev] Does XQuery support updates?

At 19:03 06.12.2003, Darshan wrote:
>XQuery as per W3C lacks the DML support; however, SQL Server "Yukon" (and
>*may be* other products supporting XQuery from other vendors) provide DML as
>an extension to XQuery. For instance, SQL Server "Yukon" supports what it
>calls as XML DML, which is an extension to XQuery and it adds three keywords
>insert, delete, and update (case-sensitive) in order to support DML used to
>update variables/columns of data type 'xml'.

This is accurate. A proposal for updates has been kicking around the XQuery 
WG for years now, but we have been working on getting the current 
functionality of XQuery to REC first. The Working Groups are now actively 
working on Updates again.

Jonathan