W3C Publishes Eight New Standards in the XML Family

We have been waiting for this a few years now.

W3C has announced the release of eight (8) Recommendations, representing some eight years of work by members of the W3C XSL Working Group and XML Query Working Group, with widespread implementation experience and extensive feedback from users and vendors. These eight new standards in the XML Family support the ability to query, transform, and access XML data and documents. The primary specifications are "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language", "XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0", and XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0".

Now it is time for the different vendors to update the early implementations of XSLT 2.0, Xpath 2.0 and XQuery. Congratulations to the working groups!!