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<a href="../history/xpath-full-text-10" title="XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 publication history">2011-03-17</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-xpath-full-text-10-20110317/">XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0</a>
</h4>
<p class="rec_support_data">
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xpath-full-text-10">translations</a>
&#xB7;
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2012/qt-errata/xpath-full-text-10-errata.html">errata</a>
</p>
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<p>This document defines the syntax and formal semantics of XQuery
and XPath Full Text 1.0 which is a language that extends XQuery 1.0
[XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath
2.0 [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0] with
full-text search capabilities.</p>
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<td>
<a href="../history/xpath20" title="XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition) publication history">2010-12-14</a>
</td>
<td>
<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xpath20-20101214/">XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition)</a>
</h4>
<p class="rec_support_data">
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xpath20">translations</a>
&#xB7;
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2010/qt-errata/xpath20-errata2e.html">errata</a>
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<p>XPath is a way to refer to parts of an XML document.
XPath 2.0 is based on the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM),
and also introduces Schema awareness and data typing.</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-datamodel" title="XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) (Second Edition) publication history">2010-12-14</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xpath-datamodel-20101214/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) (Second Edition)</a>
</h4>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xpath-datamodel">translations</a>
&#xB7;
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2010/qt-errata/xpath-datamodel-errata2e.html">errata</a>
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<p>This document defines the W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data
Model (XDM), which is the data model of [XPath
2.0], [XSLT 2.0], and [XQuery], and any other specifications that reference
it. This data model is based on the [XPath
1.0] data model and earlier work on an [XML
Query Data Model]. This document is the result of joint work by
the [XSL Working Group] and the [XML Query Working Group].</p>
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<td>
<a href="../history/xquery-semantics" title="XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics (Second Edition) publication history">2010-12-14</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xquery-semantics-20101214/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics (Second Edition)</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xquery-semantics">translations</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2010/qt-errata/xquery-semantics-errata2e.html">errata</a>
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<p>This document defines formally the semantics of <span>XQuery 1.0 [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query
Language]</span>
<span>and</span>
<span>XPath 2.0 [XML Path Language (XPath)
2.0]</span>.</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-functions" title="XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators (Second Edition) publication history">2010-12-14</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xpath-functions-20101214/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators (Second Edition)</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xpath-functions">translations</a>
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<p>This document defines constructor functions, operators and
functions on the datatypes defined in [XML
Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition] and the datatypes
defined in [XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Data Model]. It also discusses functions and operators on nodes
and node sequences as defined in the [XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model]. These
functions and operators are defined for use in [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0], [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and [XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0] and other
related XML standards. The signatures and summaries of functions
defined in this document are available at: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions.</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath" title="XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 publication history">1999-11-16</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116">XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0</a>
</h4>
<p class="rec_support_data">
<a href="http://www.w3.org/1999/11/REC-xpath-19991116-errata">errata</a>
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<p>This is the original version of XPath from 1999; some
implementations are still stuck on this, and some
specifications still refer to it. For new work
you should consider XPath 2 instead.</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-full-text-10-requirements" title="XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 Requirements publication history">2011-01-25</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-xpath-full-text-10-requirements-20110125/">XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 Requirements</a>
</h4>
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<p>The document specifies requirements for Full-Text Search for use
in XQuery [XQuery] and XPath [XPath].</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-full-text-10-use-cases" title="XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 Use Cases publication history">2011-01-25</a>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-xpath-full-text-10-use-cases-20110125/">XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 Use Cases</a>
</h4>
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<p>This document specifies usage scenarios for full-text queries as
part of XML Query [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query
Language] and XPath [XML Path Language
(XPath) 2.0].</p>
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<td>
<a href="../history/DOM-Level-3-XPath" title="Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification publication history">2004-02-26</a>
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<td>
<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226">Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</a>
</h4>
<div class="expand_description">
<p>How to use XPath with the DOM.</p>
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<h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
<p>Below are draft documents:
<a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#last-call">Last Call Drafts</a>, <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.</p>
<h3 id="lcwd">Last Call Drafts</h3>
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<a href="../history/xpath-30" title="XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0 publication history">2011-12-13</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is LCWD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-30-20111213/">XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0</a>
</h4>
<div class="expand_description">
<p>XPath 3.0 (renamed from XPath 2.1 to align with the family of "3.0"
specifications) is an expression language that allows the processing
of values conforming to the data model defined in [XQuery and XPath
Data Model (XDM) 3.0]. Some of the important new features since XPath 2.0 are:
<ul>
<li>Literal function items, inline functions, dynamic function
invocations, and function item coercion</li>
<li>Clarification of rules associated with sequence type matching</li>
<li>let expressions</li>
<li>EQNames (QNames with a namespace URI instead of a namespace prefix)</li>
<li>Support for union types in casting and function arguments</li>
</ul>
</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-functions-30" title="XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 publication history">2011-12-13</a>
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<td>
<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is LCWD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-functions-30-20111213/">XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0</a>
</h4>
<div class="expand_description">
<p>XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 (renamed from XPath and
XQuery Functions and Operators 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0"
specifications) defines a library of functions available for use in
XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, and XSLT 3.0. Some of the new features since
XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Functions and Operators include:
<ul>
<li>More than 30 new functions have been added, including functions
transferred from the XSLT 2.0 specification into Functions and
Operators 3.0 and additional versions of existing functions with
different signatures</li>
<li>The syntax for regular expressions was enhanced to allow for
non-capturing groups; additionally, a new flag value was added for
regular-expression-related functions that accept a flag argument</li>
<li>Support for function items has been added in the form of a number
of new functions</li>
<li>The description of fn:error was rewritten to accommodate the
addition of try/catch capabilities in XQuery 3.0</li>
</ul>
</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-datamodel-30" title="XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0 publication history">2011-12-13</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is LCWD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-datamodel-30-20111213/">XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0</a>
</h4>
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<p>XPath and XQuery Data Model (XDM) 3.0 (renamed from XPath and XQuery
Functions and Operators (XDM) 1.1 to align with the family of "3.0"
specifications) defines the data model on which all operations of
XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, and XSLT 3.0 operate. In this version of XDM,
two new data types have been added:
<ul>
<li>From XML Schema 1.1 Part 2 (Datatypes), the xs:dateTimeStamp data type</li>
<li>To support XPath 3.0's and XQuery 3.0's function item capabilities,
a function item data type</li>
</ul>
</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath-full-text-30" title="XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 publication history">2011-12-13</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-full-text-30-20111213/">XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0</a>
</h4>
<div class="expand_description">
<p>This document defines the syntax and formal semantics of XQuery
and XPath Full Text 3.0, which is a language that extends XQuery 3.0
[XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath 3.0 [XML Path Language
(XPath) 3.0] with full-text search capabilities.</p>
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<p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.</p>
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<a href="../history/xpath20req" title="XPath Requirements Version 2.0 publication history">2005-06-03</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath20req-20050603/">XPath Requirements Version 2.0</a>
</h4>
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<p>Requirements for version 2.0 of XPath;
we are now working on Version 2.1.</p>
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<a href="../history/xquery-xpath-parsing" title="Building a Tokenizer for XPath or XQuery publication history">2005-04-04</a>
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<h4 class="w3c_status_title">
<a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-xpath-parsing-20050404/">Building a Tokenizer for XPath or XQuery</a>
</h4>
<div class="expand_description">
<p>This document describes possible strategies for tokenizing the [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0] and [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] languages, and is provided as a helpful guide to those who are designing an implementation for these languages, and as background material for the normative EBNF found in the language specifications. In the future this document may be expanded to cover more general parsing strategies.</p>
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