An early look at XQuery API for Java™ (XQJ)

In Feb. 2004, the period for submitting Last Call Working Draft comments for most parts of the XQuery specification came to a close. While there is still a great deal of work to be done to make XQuery a W3C Recommendation, the documents have become more stable with each public release. In this column we'd like to provide an initial look at the XQuery API for Java™ (XQJ), a project that is taking place within the Java Community Process (JCP).