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The World Wide Web Consortium W3C has just published eight specifications as candidate recommendations for new XML transformation and query features. These recomendations represent a major change in XSLT, XQuery, and XPath. The message from the W3C is that these recommendations are now ready for implementation. Liam Quin is quoted as saying that these specifications bring a new level of maturity to XML. These changes in the specification come after much consultation with people that are working with large collections of documents, traders, news feeds. These specifications are said to have considered the needs or both individuals and enterprise users.

XSLT 2.0 will only maintain backwards compatibility by the setting of an xsl:version attribute. This will cause the some 2.0 attributes to behave as they did in the 1.0. Other changes include stricter serialization rules, facilities for the grouping of nodes, transformations that can produce multiple result trees, regular express text processing, a XHTML output function, an enhanced data model with a type system based on sequenced of nodes or atomic values as well as many others.

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