XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are W3C Candidate Recommendations

W3C is pleased to announce eight Candidate Recommendations for XSLT, XML Query and XPath. Comments are welcome through 28 February. XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Read the press release and visit the XML home page.

• 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 Data Model (XDM):
  Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources
• 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
• 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
• Working Drafts also published:
  • XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text:
    A full-text retrieval facility for XPath, XSLT and XML Query
  • XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases:
    Examples for full-text search over data model collections