XML News from Sunday, February 22, 2004

The W3C XQuery Working Group has posted the last call working draft of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics. Changes since the previous working draft include:

• Specification of schema context in [7.6.2 Elements in validation context] and in [7.1.4 Element and attribute type lookup (Static)]. This closes Issue 481.
• Specification in [5 Modules and Prologs] of module import. This closes Issue 555.
• Specification in [3.4.4 SequenceType Matching] and in [7 Auxiliary Judgments] of SequenceType matching. This closes Issue 559.

Frank McIngvale has released the Gnosis Utils 1.1.1, a public domain collection of Python modules for processing XML:

• xml.pickle serializes objects to and from XML using an API compatible with the standard pickle module
• xml.objectify turns arbitrary XML documents into Python objects
• xml.validity checks validity against DTDs or schemas
• xml.indexer provides full text indexing and searching of XML documents

This release adds supports for the RELAX NG schema language and fixes various bugs.