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This Cover Page item, seen on Column Two shows the active develpment on XML standards.
Through collaborative and coordinated effort between W3C's XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group, a collection of ten updated working draft specifications has been issued for public review and comment. XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators are in Last Call WD status through June 30, 2003. XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and other specifications are dependent upon the data model, functions, and operators defined in these two WDs. Other working drafts include XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics, XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0, XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0, XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language, XML Query Use Cases, XML Query (XQuery) Requirements, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization, and XQuery and XPath Full-Text Requirements.




- Request For Comments: Skos Use Cases And Requirements: Working Draft
This W3C working group is asking for comments on their work.The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of SKOS Use Cases and Requirements. Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or subject...

- Schematron
Schematron is an XML schema language that sounds better than what we have been using for our data. It allows for data validation. O'Reilly has a paid downloadable PDF on Schematron.Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language, offering flexibility...

- Search/retrieve Via Url (sru)
The proposal for CQL bibliographic searching is now available for review. This proposal will serve as the basis for further work, resulting in a bibliographic context set and two profiles. After the working group has developed final proposals there will...

- Xslt
A Transforming Experience for Content Management? by Steve Heckler, is a good overview of XSLT 2.0. As more information is available in XML this is a good alternative to CSS.During the past five years, XSLT (Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation)...

- Z39.50
The ZING Initiative (Z39.50 International Next Generation), under the auspices of the Z39.50 Maintenance Agency at the Library of Congress, is pleased to announce Version 1.0 of SRW and CQL.SRW ("Search/Retrieve for the Web") is a web-service-based protocol...



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