XML Query Test Suite version 0.8.6

The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group would like to 
announce the availability of version 0.8.6 of the XML Query Test Suite 
(XQTS) at http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/.

XQTS 0.8.6 contains about 96% of the tests that will exist when the test 
suite has been completed. We have added tests for the Module Import, 
Schema Import, and External Variable Reference features in this release. 
We have begun to make changes to the test suite based on CR issues that 
have been resolved (identified in our release notes).

We encourage implementors to build their test harnesses and to provide 
feedback to the XML Query Working Group.  We have received the results of 
running XQTS with three implementations of XQuery: Saxon-SA, xq2xsl, and 
X-Hive/DB. A report that reflects these results is available from our web 
page.

                                                -- Andrew

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Andrew Eisenberg
IBM
4 Technology Park Drive
Westford, MA  01886

andrew.eisenberg@us.ibm.com