File module and XPath 3.1

[benibela]

The file module refers to the "XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0" spec. If that is taken literally, it cannot write arrays or maps of 3.1

And the serialize function was extended to allow map {...} serialization params, file:write and file:append should probably allow them to.

And writing map/arrays as JSON is a common task, there should probably be file:write-json, file:append-json functions that are like write/append with default map {"method": "json"} options

[ChristianGruen]

It’s true, the spec should be updated one day (when the File Module was finalized, XQuery 3.0 was still predominant). – In BaseX, we have added some functions that should be added as well (https://docs.basex.org/wiki/File_Module).