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XML query specs edge closer to completion

They would allow collections of XML files on the Web to be queried like databases. [Computerworld XML News]

TEN! TEN!!!! TEN!!!!!!! Working drafts for XQuery/XPath 2.0. Man it just keeps getting worse. I'm curious does anyone really care about XQuery anymore? It certainly could be useful, but who is going to be able to implement it? Ugh, anyway, I'm glad to see they're adding full text, but it looks like updates are still missing. Oh well, it doesn't matter now.