[ANN] XSLT 2.0, XML Query 1.0, XQueryX 1.0, XPath 2.0 etc now W3C Propos

[Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>]

Today we published as W3C Proposed Recommendations the following
specifications:

    * XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0:
      Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other
      documents including into XSL-FO for printing;

    * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language:
      An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
      semi-structured data both locally and over the Web

    * XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX):
      A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language,
      suitable for machine processing and introspection

    * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0:
      Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents

    * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators:
      The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations
      you can perform on XPath 2.0 data types

    * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM):
      Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources

    * XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization:
      How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in
      XML, HTML or as text

    * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics:
      The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined
      precisely for implementers

The links are all at www.w3.org, and can also be
reached via the technical reports page, http://www.w3.org/TR/

The next step is that the W3C Advisory Committee votes (with one vote
per Member organization on whether the documents should progress to
W3C Recommendations, possibly with minor changes.

I'm sure that the participants in the Working Groups involved would
join me in thanking everyone who has reviewed the documents and given
us such helpful and constructive feedback, as well as the implementors
and the people who sent us reports from running the test suites.

Liam

-- 
Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/