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<title>We're DONE!</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2007/01/23/recommendations</biblioid>
<volumenum>10</volumenum>
<issuenum>3</issuenum>
<pubdate>2007-01-23T11:31:05-05:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2007-01-23 11:43:27 -0500 (Tue, 23 Jan 2007) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>Break out the Champagne! XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and
related specifications are W3C Recommendations!</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">It's been a long time coming, but we're finally 
<emphasis>finished</emphasis>!</para>

<para xml:id="p2">Newly on
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">the TR page</link>,
23 January 2007 Recommendations of</para>

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<para xml:id="datamodel">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-datamodel-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xpath20-20070123">XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0</link> 
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xslt20">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt20-20070123/">XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0</link> 
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xquery">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xquery-20070123/">XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language</link> 
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="fs">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xquery-semantics-20070123/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="serialization">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt-xquery-serialization-20070123/">XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="xqueryx">
	<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xqueryx-20070123">XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)</link>
</para>
    </listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para xml:id="p3">A lot of really talented people spent a really long time working
really hard on these specifications. It has been my great pleasure to participate.
Enjoy!</para>

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