XQuery Update Facility
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XQuery Update Facility is a W3C-defined extension to the XQuery language that adds syntax and semantics for modifying XML data, including inserting, deleting, and updating nodes in XML documents.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XQuery Update Facility canonical | 3 |
| XQuery Update Facility 1.0 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1096519 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: XQuery Update Facility Context triple: [XQuery, hasExtension, XQuery Update Facility]
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A.
XQuery
XQuery is a functional query and programming language designed for extracting and manipulating data from XML documents and related data sources.
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B.
XSLT
XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other formats such as XML, HTML, or plain text using template-based rules.
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C.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible, text-based markup language designed for structuring, storing, and transporting data in a platform-independent way.
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D.
XML Namespaces
XML Namespaces is a W3C specification that provides a method for qualifying element and attribute names in XML documents to avoid naming conflicts between vocabularies.
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E.
Schematron
Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language that uses XPath expressions to define and validate complex structural and business constraints in XML documents.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: XQuery Update Facility Target entity description: XQuery Update Facility is a W3C-defined extension to the XQuery language that adds syntax and semantics for modifying XML data, including inserting, deleting, and updating nodes in XML documents.
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A.
XQuery
XQuery is a functional query and programming language designed for extracting and manipulating data from XML documents and related data sources.
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B.
XSLT
XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other formats such as XML, HTML, or plain text using template-based rules.
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C.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible, text-based markup language designed for structuring, storing, and transporting data in a platform-independent way.
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D.
XML Namespaces
XML Namespaces is a W3C specification that provides a method for qualifying element and attribute names in XML documents to avoid naming conflicts between vocabularies.
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E.
Schematron
Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language that uses XPath expressions to define and validate complex structural and business constraints in XML documents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
W3C specification
ⓘ
XML update language ⓘ XQuery extension ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
XDM instances
ⓘ
XML data ⓘ |
| category | XML query language extension ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model
ⓘ
linked to:
XDM (XQuery and XPath Data Model)
|
| definedBy |
W3C
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| defines |
pending update list
ⓘ
update expressions ⓘ update primitives ⓘ update semantics for XQuery ⓘ |
| domain | XML data management ⓘ |
| enables |
in-place updates of XML nodes
ⓘ
transactional-style modifications of XML data ⓘ |
| extends |
XQuery
ⓘ
XQuery 1.0 ⓘ
linked to:
XQuery
|
| fullName |
XQuery Update Facility 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
XQuery Update Facility
|
| governs | how XQuery expressions can modify XML nodes ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
update facility dynamic context
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update facility static context ⓘ updating functions ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
declarative update operations
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side-effecting expressions ⓘ snapshot semantics for updates ⓘ |
| purpose | to add update capabilities to XQuery ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
XDM
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XPath ⓘ XQuery ⓘ |
| semanticsType | formal operational semantics for updates ⓘ |
| shortName | XQUF ⓘ |
| specVersion | 1.0 ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
W3C XML Query Working Group
ⓘ
linked to:
W3C Working Group
|
| status | W3C Recommendation ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
delete nodes from XML data
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insert nodes into XML data ⓘ modify XML document content ⓘ modify XML document structure ⓘ rename nodes in XML data ⓘ replace nodes in XML data ⓘ |
| syntaxType | extension of XQuery expression syntax ⓘ |
| useCase |
maintaining XML configuration files
ⓘ
updating XML documents in databases ⓘ web services manipulating XML payloads ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: XQuery Update Facility Description of subject: XQuery Update Facility is a W3C-defined extension to the XQuery language that adds syntax and semantics for modifying XML data, including inserting, deleting, and updating nodes in XML documents.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: XQuery Update Facility