Ten Working Drafts

Volume 8, Issue 20; 11 Feb 2005; last modified 08 Oct 2010

Holy Working Drafts, Batman! That's a lotta specs!

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

—Edward V. Berard

I spent a good chunk of last week turning the publications crank on ten, count 'em ten, working drafts for the XSL and XML Query Working Groups. The fruit of that labor was published today.

Newly on the TR page, February 11, 2005 Working Drafts of

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model,
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators,
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0,
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language,
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics,
XQuery Update Facility Requirements,
XML Query Use Cases,
XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX),
XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization, and
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0.

Now all I have to do is go read them all again. Again.

Comments

We greatly appreciate your efforts, Norm! I only recently started using a few XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 features, but that was enough to make it quicker and simpler to write some of my scripts (I have been faking sequences for *so* long in XSLT 1.0). So my congratulations to all of the XSL and XQuery WG members. Cheers, Tony.