EXPath Binary Module 1.0 Release

We have pleasure in announcing that the specification for the *EXPath 
Binary* module, a library of extension functions for manipulating binary 
data in XPath/XQuery/XSLT, has been released as the *1.0 version*. The 
specification can be found at http://expath.org/spec/binary

We thank all those in the EXPath community who have contributed to the 
extensive discussion and modification of this specification over the 
past six months, and hope that the existence of a stable definition for 
a comprehensive and tested set of functions for binary data manipulation 
will prove helpful to both implementors of processing tools and more 
importantly application developers.

Two test-suites (developed by different implementors) for the module are 
available at 
https://github.com/expath/expath-cg/tree/master/tests/qt3/binary. Other 
information, such as samples, will appear in 
http://expath.org/modules/binary/

This is the first of the EXPath modules that has been stabilised at 1.0 
level. We hope that over the coming months a few more will too - even 
ones that have been used practically for some time, but where the 
stabilising effect of a version-number imprimatur will increase the 
confidence of application developers.

Good luck with 'fiddling the bits'!


John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>
Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>

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*John Lumley* MA PhD CEng FIEE
john@saxonica.com <mailto:john@saxonica.com>
on behalf of Saxonica Ltd