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→Motivation
One of the reasons why languages such as Java or Perl have been so successful is the vast amount of libraries that are available to developers.
XQuery is a Turing complete language, but it just provides around 100 pre-defined functions, which cannot live up to meet all expectationsrequirements. This is why more and more additional libraries arise – such as [http://www.xqueryfunctions.com/ FunctX] – that extend the language with new features.
BaseX offers two mechanisms to make new packages accessible to the XQuery processor:
* With {{Version|7.2.1}}, we offer a simple [[Packaging#Packaging|packaging]] mechanism to directly install XQuery archives modules and JAR files to the repository.
* The [[Packaging#EXPath Packaging|EXPath Packaging]] system provides a generic mechanism for extending XQuery processors with new packages.
