Finally, after working on it for almost 8 years, XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 have finally been released as W3C recommendations. It has been a long and interesting journey for all involved and now we hope that people start to use it and provide us implementers with feedback on where we need to improve either our implementation or the language. Because the Working Group has started on gathering requirements for the next version of XQuery.

Here are the official W3C links:

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