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XQuery 1.0, XSL-T 2.0 and XPath 2.0 are finally recommendations
Wow, I never thought it would happen but XQuery 1.0, XSL-T 2.0 and XPath 2.0 have finally been released as W3C recoommendations. Eight specs in total make up this behemoth. This is an interesting claim.
The XML Query Working Group catalogued over forty implementations of XQuery and reported on how fourteen of them satisfy a test suite consisting of more than 14,000 test cases, demonstrating unprecedented levels of interoperability. XML Query is already available in products from all of the major relational database vendors as well as in XML-native database systems, middleware, XML editing systems and numerous open source products. W3C Member organizations have also announced implementations of XQuery or plans for implementations.
Just shows that with a enough blood, sweat and tears anything can be pushed through a standards body. So does anyone other than vendors actually care anymore? The wait for these things was excruciating and the complexity that comes along with them is extremely unfortunate. XML was supposed to be simple, this stuff plain and simply isn’t.
This entry was posted by Kimbro Staken on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 3:31 pm and is filed under XML. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.