XML News from Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The W3C XQuery working group has published an updated working draft of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases. New features since XQuery 1.0 include:

• Added 3.8.4 Group By Clause to FLWOR Expression.
• Added 3.8.2 Window Clauses to FLWOR Expression.
• try/catch
• Nondeterministic external functions
• "count" clause in FLWOR
• Outer For
• Query prolog syntax to specify how decimal numbers are formatted.