XUpdate is a lightweight

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for modifying XML data. After some early enthusiastic development by a small team, the development of the standard faltered around the end of 2000 and it has never found widespread adoption. However, it has found a niche market of users not content to wait for the XQuery Update Facility extension of the

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standard,

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Last Working Draft, September 14, 2000

XQuery Update facility

O'Reilly article from 2005 summarising XUpdate development *

eXist eXist-db (or eXist for short) is an open source software project for NoSQL databases built on XML technology. It is classified as both a NoSQL document-oriented database system and a native XML database (and it provides support for XML, JSON, HTM ...

supports XUpdate via it
XML-RPC API - XUpdateXML:DB API - XUpdate
and it
REST API - XUpdate

Apache XIndice
supports XUpdate * Sedna supports XUpdate via its XML:DB API XML-based standards {{compu-lang-stub