XQuery 1.0 is nearing completion

XQuery is a query language designed for querying real and virtual XML documents and collections of these documents. Its development began in the second half of 1999. We provided an early look at XQuery in Dec. 2002 [1]. XQuery 1.0 is now approaching its publication as a W3C Recommendation, and we would like to update you on its progress. We can speak to this area with even more authority than we did last time, as we both became co-chairs of the W3C XML Query Working Group [2] in summer 2004.