FW: Six documents, two by the XML Query Working Group and four also jointly with the XSLT Working Group, are now W3C Recommendations

Those with an interest in XML processing might find this announcement
interesting or useful:

On 21/03/2017, 10:09, "Xueyuan Jia" <xueyuan@w3.org> wrote:

>
>Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>Chairs,
>
>It is my pleasure to announce that the following documents are now W3C
>Recommendations:
>
>Published by the XML Query Working Group:
>
>XQuery 3.1: An XML Query Language
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-xquery-31-20170321/
>
>XQueryX 3.1
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-xqueryx-31-20170321/
>
>Published jointly by the XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working
>Group:
>
>XML Path Language (XPath) 3.1
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-xpath-31-20170321/
>
>XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.1
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-xpath-datamodel-31-20170321/
>
>XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-xpath-functions-31-20170321/
>
>XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.1
>https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-xslt-xquery-serialization-31-20170321/
>
>The 3.1 work extends XPath and XQuery with map and array data structures
>along with additional functions and operators for manipulating them; a
>primary motivation was to enhance JSON support.
>
>XPath is a domain-specific language for identifying and extracting nodes
>from a tree (typically) built from XML or JSON and defined by the XQuery
>and XPath Data Model) and also an expression language with typed tree
>nodes and functions among the first-class objects. XPath expressions can
>call functions and use operators defined in the Functions and Operators
>specification.
>
>XQuery extends XPath to support complex joins, windowing, grouping and
>other operations across collections of trees that are potentially stored
>in high-performance indexed databases.
>
>XQueryX is an XML representation of XQuery expressions.
>
>The Serialization specification describes how results of XPath and
>XQuery(X) expressions can be delivered in HTML, XHTML, JSON, XML or text.
>
>The Advisory Committee response to the call for review [1] of the
>Proposed Recommendations was positive, with no requests for change and
>no objections.
>
>Please join us in thanking the XML Query Working Group [2] and the XSLT
>Working Group [3], along with all of the members of the wider public
>community who implemented, gave feedback, and helped to make XPath and
>XQuery a success.
>
>This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
>   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#ACReviewAfter
>
>For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
>Liam Quin, XML Coordinator;
>Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
>
>[1] https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/qt-31-2017/results
>[2] https://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
>[3] https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
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Received on Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:10:10 UTC