The mission of the XUpdate Working Group is to provide open and flexible update facilities to modify data in XML documents. Doing so it is not important where the documents come from. It can be real documents or virtual documents retrieved from XML databases.

Publications:

• Requirements, last release November 24, 2000
• XUpdate Working Draft, last release September 14, 2000

Downloads:

• NEW: XML:DB Lexus 0.3
  The reference implementation is available for download.
• XML:DB Lexus 0.2.2
  

Other Pointers:

• API for XML Databases, XML:DB Working Group:
  "The goal of the Working Group is to develop a specification for an Application Programming Interface (API) to XML databases. This specification should be vendor-neutral to use it with any database that is able to store XML data no matter what kind of database it is."