Last Call: XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0; XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Note Published

The XML Query Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0. This document defines the syntax and formal semantics of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0, which is a language that extends XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0 with full-text search capabilities. Comments are welcome through 17 October 2014.

In addition, the XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group jointly published a Group Note of XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0. This specification defines an extension to XQuery 1.0 and XQuery Update Facility. Expressions can be evaluated in a specific order, with later expressions seeing the effects of the expressions that came before them. This specification introduces several new kinds of expression, including the apply, assignment, while, and exit expression, and a block expression with local variable declarations.

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