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New W3C specifications of XQuery and XPath2


Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:47:08 -0400
From:      Massimo Marchiori <massimo@w3.org>
To:        Xml-Dev@lists.xml.org
Subject:   Announcement: New W3C specifications of XQuery and XPath2

W3C's XML Query and XSL Working Groups have published today (August 16) new updated drafts of the following specifications:

XML Query Use Cases available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlquery-use-cases

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/query-datamodel/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/query-semantics/

XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators Version 1.0 available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators

General discussion on the drafts can be done in the www-ql@w3.org mailing list, with archives at:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ql/

Comments and feedback on the drafts solely addressed to the working groups should instead be sent at public-qt-comments@w3.org (archives at:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/

Note you can't subscribe to this list, as it's just used one-way to send comments and issues (so, it is not a discussion forum, you can use www-ql@w3.org for that).

Patent disclosures relevant to the specifications produced by the XML-Query working group can be found on the XML Query Working Group's patent disclosure page at:

http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xmlquery-IPR-statements

Specifications that are joint work with the XSL working group have also the additional patent disclosures provided by the XSL wg at:

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Disclosures

Latest versions and news always available from the XML Query page:

http://www.w3.org/XML/Query

-Massimo

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