XML News from Monday, April 27, 2009

The W3C XQuery Working Group has posted proposed edited recommendations of the various XQuery/XPath 2 specs:

• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) (Second Edition)
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators (Second Edition)
• XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition)
• XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (Second Edition)
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics (Second Edition)
• XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) (Second Edition)
• XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization (Second Edition)
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 (Second Edition)

A "second edition is not a new version of this specification; its purpose is to clarify a number of issues that have become apparent since the first edition was published. All of these clarifications (excepting trivial editorial fixes) have been published in a separate errata document."