Talk:XQuery/Updates and Namespaces

update replace $doc//task:id/text with 123 only works if there  has a text node, not if it is empty.

Actually, what is one sees when one opens the document again is

With only a prefix on . Jens Østergaard Petersen (discuss • contribs) 14:52, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

I have deleted "It is important to note that native XML databases do not store XML on disk. They only store a B+tree representation of sequential nodes.  But they look for hints in the file structure as to how the XML is serialized as it is presented to an application."

This is not relevant to the discussion - and it is wrong, since it concerns indexing, not storing. XML files are stored as XML files, with white space between nodes removed.

--Jens Østergaard Petersen (discuss • contribs) 10:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)