Australian W3C Office

Querying XML Documents

The Australian W3C Office, in conjunction with the Department of Innovation and Information Economy (Queensland Government), Microsoft and DSTC Pty Ltd is pleased to present a free W3C short workshop by Mr Paul Cotton, Program Manager XML Standards, Microsoft Canada. Chairman W3C XML Query Working Group, member W3C Technical Architecture Group to be held on Thursday, 14th August 2003 at 2:00pm to 3:00pm. Venue: Level 3, 80 George Street, Brisbane.

Abstract: The W3C XML Query Working Group (WG) was chartered in September 1999 to develop a query language for XML documents. The goal of the XML Query Working Group is to produce a formal data model for XML documents with Namespaces based on the XML Infoset and XML Schemas, a set of query operators on that data model, and then an XQuery language with a concrete canonical syntax based on the proposed operators. Work on XPath 2.0 which is a subset of XQuery 1.0 is being done in co-operation of the W3C XSL WG.

This talk will provide an update on the current status of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0. Paul will outline the relationship of the work of the XML Query WG to other W3C XML standards especially XML Schema. He will also give the status of the Working Group's efforts to add support to XQuery for full-text retrieval and an update language.

Presenter: Paul Cotton is Program Manager of XML Standards with Microsoft Canada. Paul has been active within the W3C XML Activity since 1998 and has been the Chairman of the W3C XML Query Working Group since the WG was formed in 1999. Paul was elected to the first W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) in Dec 2001 and re-elected in Dec 2002. The W3C TAG is responsible for defining the W3C's view of the architecture for the Web. Paul is also a member of the WS-I Board of Directors and Chair of the WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group. Paul has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry and has been working on query language.

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