Querying XML documents
Speaker: Mr Paul Cotton, Program Manager XML Standards and Chairman W3C XML Query Working Group, member W3C T
When: 2003-08-14 14:00:00
Venue: Level 3, 80 George Street, Brisbane
Host: (seminar host unavailable)
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.
Biography: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.
Type: DSTC seminar
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or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)