Announcement: New W3C specifications of XQuery and XPath2

[apologies for multiple postings]

W3C's XML Query and XSL Working Groups have published today (August 16)
new updated drafts of the following specifications:

XML Query Use Cases 
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlquery-use-cases

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model 
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/query-datamodel/

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/query-semantics/

XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators Version 1.0
  available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators


General discussion on the drafts can be done in the 
 mailing list
(archives at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ql/ ).

Comments and feedback on the drafts solely addressed to the working
groups should instead be sent at  
(archives at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/ ). 
Note you can't subscribe to this list, as it's just used one-way to
send comments and issues (so, it is not a discussion forum, you can
use  for that).

Patent disclosures relevant to the specifications produced by the XML-Query working group can be found on the XML Query Working Group's patent disclosure page at
http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xmlquery-IPR-statements
Specifications that are joint work with the XSL working group have also the additional patent disclosures provided by the XSL wg at 
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Disclosures .

Latest versions and news always available from the XML Query page
(http://www.w3.org/XML/Query ).

-Massimo


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