Berkeley DB XML Reference Guide: Berkeley DB XML XQuery Extensions

Berkeley DB XML Reference Guide:
Berkeley DB XML XQuery Extensions

Berkeley DB XML XQuery Extensions

Berkeley DB XML supports the XQuery Specification from the W3C. The specification includes a large number of functions, and also supports the writing of extension functions. Berkeley DB XML includes a number of extension functions that are in the Berkeley DB XML namespace, "http://www.sleepycat.com/2002/dbxml", which is assumed to be bound to the prefix "dbxml" in this documentation.

The functions signatures follow that of the specification. In addition to documenting the Berkeley DB XML XQuery extension functions, the treatment of the arguments to fn:collection() and fn:doc() in the context of Berkeley DB XML.

This documentation covers only those areas where Berkeley DB XML extends the specification or has implementation-defined behavior. See the XQuery Specification or other resources as XQuery references. The following functions are interpreted and implemented in Berkeley DB XML: