Last Call: XQuery, XPath and XSLT
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group released twelve Working Drafts for the XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Seven are in last call through 13 May. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. Both XQuery and XSLT 2 use XPath expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Visit the XML home page.
- XML Query Use
Cases:
The motivations of XML Query explained in examples - XML Path Language (XPath)
2.0:
Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents - Last Call - XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Data Model:
For both XML and non-XML sources - Last Call - 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 data types - Last call - XSLT 2.0
and XQuery 1.0 Serialization:
Defines how to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML, HTML or as text - Last Call - XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Version 2.0:
Using XML schemas, transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents including into XSL-FO for printing - Last Call - XQuery 1.0: An XML Query
Language:
A non-XML, Perl-like syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web - Last Call - XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0
(XQueryX):
A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language, suitable for machine processing and introspection - Last Call - XQuery
1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases:
Examples for full-text search over data model collections - 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 Formal Semantics:
The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely for implementers - Building a
Tokenizer for XPath or XQuery:
Strategies for writing an XPath parser
