XUpdate is a lightweight XML query language 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 W3C standard, XQuery.
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