Eight New W3C Standards (That You Already Know)

Yesterday, after reviewing over 1,000 comments from developers, the W3C ratified eight standards surrounding XML, beginning the gelid process of product migration towards a fixed target. These are standards most of which we've all been struggling with for years -- XSLT 2.0, XPath and related items -- all in diverse and tweaky implementations.

Included in the standard package are:

• 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
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0: Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents, including into XSL-FO for printing
• XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0: Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents
• 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
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM): Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources
• 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
• XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX): An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics: The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely for implementers

Posted by John Jainschigg at 11:04 AM  Permalink