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SUMMARY:Adventures in XML updates - James Cheney (University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20100330T131500Z
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CONTACT:Boris Feigin
DESCRIPTION:Over the last 10 years\, members of the database\, programming
  language and Web communities have developed a nice\, purely functional (i
 n parts) query language for tree-structured data called XQuery\, including
  a formal semantics that is a (non-normative) W3C standard. Many people ar
 e now intent on adding imperative features so that tree-structured data ca
 n also be updated. I’ll present some work on a clean\, nice\, but not ve
 ry expressive language called FLUX \, and contrast it with the semantics o
 f the W3C update proposal currently under development\, focusing on the is
 sue of typechecking.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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