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XPath is an expression language that allows the processing of values conforming to the data model defined in the XQuery and Xpath Data Model.
XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 defines a library of functions available for use in XPath, XQuery, XSLT and other languages.
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XQuery 3.1 is a versatile query and application development language, capable of processing the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases and tree-bases databases. The XQuery language is designed to support powerful optimizations and pre-compilation leading to very efficient searches over large amounts of data, including over so-called XML-native databases that read and write XML but have an efficient internal storage.
The XPath and XQuery Data Model (XDM) 3.1 defines the data model on which all operations of XPath 3.1, XQuery 3.1, and XSLT 3.1 operate.
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XQueryX 3.1 defines an XML syntax for the semantics defined by XQuery 3.1.
This document defines serialization of an instance of the XQuery and XPath Data model Data Model into a sequence of octets, such as into XML, text, HTML, JSON.
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 [XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath 3.0 [XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0] with full-text search capabilities.
XPath 3.0 (renamed from XPath 2.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) is an expression language that allows the processing of values conforming to the data model defined in [XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.0]. Some of the important new features since XPath 2.0 are:
- Literal function items, inline functions, dynamic function invocations, and function item coercion
- Clarification of rules associated with sequence type matching
- let expressions
- EQNames (QNames with a namespace URI instead of a namespace prefix)
- Support for union types in casting and function arguments
XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 (renamed from XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) defines a library of functions available for use in XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, and XSLT 3.0. Some of the new features since XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Functions and Operators include:
- More than 30 new functions have been added, including functions transferred from the XSLT 2.0 specification into Functions and Operators 3.0 and additional versions of existing functions with different signatures
- The syntax for regular expressions was enhanced to allow for non-capturing groups; additionally, a new flag value was added for regular-expression-related functions that accept a flag argument
- Support for function items has been added in the form of a number of new functions
- The description of fn:error was rewritten to accommodate the addition of try/catch capabilities in XQuery 3.0
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XQuery 3.0 (renamed from XQuery 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. Important new features since XQuery 1.0 include:
- The "group by" clause, windowing ("tumbling window" and "sliding window"), the "count" clause, and the "allowing empty" clause in FLWOR expressions
- A try/catch capability to support application handling of errors
- Literal function items, inline functions, dynamic function invocations, and function item coercion
- Nondeterministic functions and private functions
- A value-based switch expression (analogous to the existing typeswitch expression)
- Computed namespace constructors
- Declaration of serialization parameters
- Support for new Functions and Operators 3.0 capabilities
- Cleaner definition of module import
XPath and XQuery Data Model (XDM) 3.0 (renamed from XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators (XDM) 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) defines the data model on which all operations of XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, and XSLT 3.0 operate. In this version of XDM, two new data types have been added:
- From XML Schema 1.1 Part 2 (Datatypes), the xs:dateTimeStamp data type
- To support XPath 3.0's and XQuery 3.0's function item capabilities, a function item data type
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XQueryX 3.0 (renamed from XQueryX 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) defines an XML syntax for the semantics defined by XQuery 3.0. This publication is aligned with XQuery 3.0
XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0 (renamed from XQueryX 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) defines serialization of an instance of XDM 3.0 into a sequence of octets. Important new features in Serialization 3.0 include:
- Supports serialization of function items
- Adds a definition of a suppress-indentation serialization parameter
- Clarifies how minimized attributes, as well as the "script" and "style" elements, are handled under the rules of the HTML output method
This document defines the syntax and formal semantics of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 which is a language that extends XQuery 1.0 [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath 2.0 [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0] with full-text search capabilities.
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This document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model.
XPath is a way to refer to parts of an XML document. XPath 2.0 is based on the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM), and also introduces Schema awareness and data typing.
This document defines the W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM), which is the data model of [XPath 2.0], [XSLT 2.0], and [XQuery], and any other specifications that reference it. This data model is based on the [XPath 1.0] data model and earlier work on an [XML Query Data Model]. This document is the result of joint work by the [XSL Working Group] and the [XML Query Working Group].
This document defines formally the semantics of XQuery 1.0 [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath 2.0 [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0].
This document defines constructor functions, operators and functions on the datatypes defined in [XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition] and the datatypes defined in [XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model]. It also discusses functions and operators on nodes and node sequences as defined in the [XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model]. These functions and operators are defined for use in [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0], [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and [XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0] and other related XML standards. The signatures and summaries of functions defined in this document are available at: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions.
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XQuery 1.1 fixes some bugs and adds some substantial new features to XQuery 1.0.
This document defines serialization of an instance of the data model as defined in [XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model] into a sequence of octets. Serialization is designed to be a component that can be used by other specifications such as [XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0] or [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language].
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This document specifies goals and requirements for the XQuery Scripting Extension.
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This document specifies usage scenarios for the XQuery Scripting Extension.
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This document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility 3.0 provides expressions that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0.
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This document specifies goals, requirements and use cases for the XQuery Update Facility 3.0.
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This document specifies goals and requirements for XQuery 3.1.
This document specifies requirements and use cases for Full-Text Search for use in XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0.
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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 the concept of a block with local variable declarations, as well as several new kinds of expressions, including assignment, while, and exit expressions.
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The design of XQuery 3.0 was driven by requirements gathered following the XQuery 1.0 development timeframe. This Requirements document (renamed from XQuery Requirements 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) provides an update on the status of each requirements.
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The design of XQuery 3.0 was supported by use cases gathered following the XQuery 1.0 development timeframe. This Use Cases document (renamed from XQuery Use Cases 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0" specifications) corrects one Use Case.
The document specifies requirements for Full-Text Search for use in XQuery [XQuery] and XPath [XPath].
This document specifies usage scenarios for full-text queries as part of XML Query [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0].
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This document specifies goals and requirements for the XQuery Update Facility.
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This document specifies usage scenarios for the XQuery Update Facility.
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This document specifies goals, requirements, and usage scenarios for the W3C XML Query (XQuery) data model and query language. It also includes, for each requirement, a corresponding status, indicating the status of the requirement in the XQuery 1.0 family of W3C Recommendations.