"XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics" spec has been updated today and reached Last Call Working Draft status. This is a document you may want to read to get deep understanding of semantics of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 languages: This document defines the semantics of [XPath/XQuery] by giving
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Here is what Michael Kay (XSLT star, developer of Saxon, author of every-XSLT-dev-bible "XSLT Programmer's Reference" and XSLT 2.0 editor) writes about XQuery: The strength of XQuery is that it is a simpler language than XSLT, which makes it much more feasible to implement efficient searching of very large XML
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RenderX, a company behind famous XEP XSL-FO formatter plans to release a .NET version. Great news! XEP is the best production quality Java XSL-FO formatter I've ever seen. It's not unexpensive, but it covers XSL-FO a way better than free Apache FOP (I have to add "unfortunately", being one of
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