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XQuery type-checker
XQuery type-checker
Functional Description
This prototype implements a sound static type-system for XQuery, which, as of december 2014, is the most precise type system known for XQuery. It supports the static typing of backward axes that no other does nor is supported in the XQuery recommendation. It also includes precise typing for conditional statements which is challenging as such statement are usually sensitive to the program context. Our type checker successfully verifies complex programs for which existing type-checkers (either known from the literature or those developed in commercial software) fail by reporting false alarms. One major benefit is to allow the cost of validation to be deferred from runtime to compile-time (once only). This prototype is implemented in Scala and interacts with the solver by issuing externals calls for deciding complex subtyping relations. This prototype is described in preprint [20] .