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XSLT 2.0 AND XQUERY 1.0 SERIALIZATION

Status of this document

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This is a Public Working Draft for review by W3C Members and other interested parties. Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

This document describes how [XSLT2], [XQuery] and other related XML standards convert an instance of the [DataModel] into a sequence of octets. This material has been moved out of the XSLT draft and into a separate document so that it can be shared by both the named specifications and possibly other specifications as well.

This draft includes many corrections and changes based on member-only and public comments on the Last Call Working Draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20031112/). The XML Query and XSL WGs wish to thank the people who have sent in comments for their close reading of the document.

This draft reflects decisions taken up to and including the joint teleconference meeting 209 of the XSL and XML Query Working Groups of 21 September 2004. These decisions are recorded in the Last Call issues list (http://www.w3.org/2004/10/xquery-serialization-issues.html). However, some of these decisions may not yet be reflected in this document.

XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization has been defined jointly by the XSL Working Group and the XML Query Working Group (both part of the XML Activity).

Public comments on this document and its open issues are invited. Comments should be sent to the W3C XSLT/XPath/XQuery mailing list, public-qt-comments@w3.org (archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/), with “[Serial]” at the beginning of the subject field.

The patent policy for this document is the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the XML Query Working Group's patent disclosure page and the XSL Working Group's patent disclosure page. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) with respect to this specification should disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

Abstract

This document defines serialization for the [XSLT2] and [XQuery] specifications and any other specifications that reference it.