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XQuery Gotchas

XQuery is quickly approaching the final approval of the W3C standard organization. All the signs point to a Recommendation status in the not too distant future. There are, however, some caveats to be aware of in the XQuery 1.0 release:

• Full-text search is not part of XQuery 1.0, although it is possible that it may be considered in future drafts. A full-text search can be thought of as similar to a typical Google keyword search. You can find additional details here:
  
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-full-text/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlquery-full-text-use-cases/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-full-text/
  
  
• Updates are not included as part of XQuery 1.0, but work has already begun on defining the XQuery update drafts. Again, the XQuery working group is working to determine whether updates will be included in a subsequent version of XQuery. More details can be found here.
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-update-requirements/