XQuery 3.1: An XML Query Language W3C Recommendation 21 March 2017
Hurray!
Related reading of interest:
XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1
XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.1
These recommendations are subject to licenses that read in part:
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You know I think the organization of XQuery 3.1 and friends could be improved but deriving and distributing “improved” versions is expressly prohibited.
Hmmm, but we are talking about XML and languages to query and transform XML.
Consider the potential of an query that calls XQuery 3.1: An XML Query Language and materials cited in it, then returns a version of XQuery 3.1 that has definitions from other standards off-set in the XQuery 3.1 text.
Or than inserts into the text examples or other materials.
For decades XML enthusiasts have bruited about dynamic texts but have produced damned few of them (as in zero) as their standards.
Let’s use the “no derivatives” language of the W3C as an incentive to not create another static document but a dynamic one that can grow or contract according to the wishes of its reader.
Suggestions for first round features?