Welcome to UpdateX, the XQuery Updates Project at the University of Florida

This research project is a joint effort between the University of Florida and Bell Laboratories. The purpose of this and the following pages is to serve as a reference for our work on XML updates and to document our progress in developing a state-of-the-art XML update engine based on the Galax XQuery processor.

What you will find here:

• Documentation for the XQuery update language
• Reading material, research papers, and technical reports on XML updates and the XQuery update language
• An on-line demo of our implementation of an XQuery update engine
• Pointers to the latest version of Galax with support for XML updates