Status of this Document
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document at the time of its publication.
Other documents may supersede this document.
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This document is governed by the
1 September 2015 W3C Process Document.
W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation, as described in the Process Document,
to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation
by the developer community.
This document was published by the XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group, each of which is part of the XML Activity.
It will remain a Candidate Recommendation until at least 10 January 2017.
The groups expect to advance this specification to Recommendation Status.
This document will be
considered ready for transition to Proposed Recommendation
at the same time that the XQuery 3.1 specification is ready
for transition to Proposed Recommendation.
Once the entrance criteria for Proposed Recommendation have been achieved,
the Director will be requested to advance this document to Proposed Recommendation status.
Working closely with the developer community, we expect to show evidence of implementations
by approximately 10 January 2017.
This Candidate Recommendation specifies XSLT and XQuery Serialization
version 3.1, a fully compatible extension of
Serialization version 3.0.
This specification is designed to be referenced normatively from
other specifications defining a host language for it; it is not
intended to be implemented outside a host language. The
implementability of this specification has been tested in the context
of its normative inclusion in host languages defined by the
XQuery 3.1
and
XSLT 3.0 (expected in 2017) specifications;
see the
XQuery 3.1 implementation report
(and, in the future, the WGs expect that there will also be an
XSLT 3.0 implementation report) for details.
This document is a revised Candidate Recommendation and incorporates changes made against the
Candidate Recommendation of 17 December 2015 as a result of review feedback.
Changes to this document since the previous Candidate Recommendation are detailed in
F Change Log.
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