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<title>Eight Proposed Recommendations!</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2006/11/27/eightPRs</biblioid>
<volumenum>9</volumenum>
<issuenum>117</issuenum>
<pubdate>2006-11-27T12:53:32-05:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2006-11-27 13:30:23 -0500 (Mon, 27 Nov 2006) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>Probably the penultimate publication!</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#W3C"/>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#XML"/>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#XSLT2"/>
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<para xml:id="p1">We're
<link xlink:href="/2005/11/03/tendrafts">almost</link> <emphasis>done</emphasis>.
I was a little too busy to get this out before Thanksgiving, so it's not
really new news anymore, but
the 
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/">XSL</link>
and
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Query">XML Query</link>
Working Groups have issued Proposed Recommendations for the joint
XPath/XML Query/XSLT work!
</para>

<para xml:id="p2">Newly on
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">the TR page</link>,
21 November 2006 Proposed Recommendations of</para>

<itemizedlist>
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<para xml:id="datamodel">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xpath-datamodel-20061121/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="fando">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xpath-functions-20061121/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xpath">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xpath20-20061121">XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xquery">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xquery-20061121/">XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="fs"><link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xquery-semantics-20061121/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics</link>,
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xqueryx"><link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xqueryx-20061121">XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)</link>,
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="serialization">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20061121/">XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xslt20">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xslt20-20061121/">XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
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<para xml:id="p3">Happy reading!</para>

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