XML query specs edge closer to completion
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A pair of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) groups have jointly released 10 new working drafts of specifications intended to allow collections of XML (Extensible Markup Language) files on the Web to be queried like databases.
The drafts address various aspects of the problem of locating and retrieving information from documents compliant with XML, a protocol for describing the type of data contained in a structured document. Solving that problem is the task of the W3C's XML Query working group, with the assistance of the XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) working group.
The core of the XML Query group's efforts is the creation of XQuery, a language for searching XML documents. Among the 10 new drafts is an updated version of the XQuery 1.0 specification, as well as an updated version of the closely related draft of XPath 2.0, a language for addressing parts of XML documents.