Shannon Lecture Series: Feb. 15, 2007.
New Standards from W3C: XPath, XQuery, and XSLT
Presented by: Don Chamberlin, IBM Almaden Research Center

Abstract of Talk.

On January 23, 2007, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced a new suite of XML-related recommendations, including a new query language called XQuery and significant updates to the widely-used XPath and XSLT languages. This talk will describe the new languages, their significance, and their relationship to other XML standards. It will also discuss the W3C design process and some of the influences that shaped the design of these languages. It will conclude with a look at some of the ongoing work at W3C relating to XML languages and standards.

About the Speaker.

Don Chamberlin is an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is co-inventor of the SQL relational database language and co-inventor of the Quilt language which became the basis for the design of XQuery. Don works at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and for the past several years he has represented IBM on the W3C XML Query Working Group. He is an editor of the XPath and XQuery language specifications.

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