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The XQuery language

The query language developed by W3C is called XQuery and is currently at the level of a Working Draft.

It is derived from several previous proposals:

which happily all agreed on the fundamental principles.

XQuery relies on XPath and XML Schema datatypes.

XQuery is not an XML language - a version in XML syntax is called XQueryX.

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