Jim,

I expect Zorba to report results by the end of the year, hopefully 100%. We 
implement all the features,
including the optional ones.

Best
Dana


On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Jim Melton wrote:

> Gentle friends,
> 
> The XML Query WG, jointly with the XSLT Working Group, are nearly ready to 
> several several of the "3.0" suite of specifications from Last Call Working 
> Draft to Candidate Recommendation.  The exceptions are Serialization 3.0, 
> which will be submitted for a second Last Call comment period, and XSLT 3.0, 
> which has not yet entered the Last Call phase.  (The documents being 
> considered for advancement are XQuery 3.0, XQueryX 3.0, XPath 3.0, XDM 3.0, 
> and F&O 3.0.)
> 
> We already have in place a very substantial test suite for XQuery 3.0, 
> although we do not claim that it is as complete as we wish it to be.  We are 
> currently in the process of reviewing the test suite to determine what 
> additional tests are needed to ensure that we can determine our specs to be 
> implementable as required by W3C policies.
> 
> The purpose of Candidate Recommendation is, as implied above, to determine 
> whether the specs are implementable, particularly that each feature can be 
> implemented by two or more implementations compatibly.  Therefore, as 
> documents are transitioned to Candidate Recommendation, a Call for 
> Implementations is issued.  Implementations respond to that call by 
> submitting their results from running the test suite and by reporting bugs 
> they've discovered as a result.
> 
> When we transition to Candidate Recommendation, we are required to indicate a 
> date through which we will accept test suite results and other comments 
> before we consider a further transition to Proposed Recommendation.  At this 
> point, we honestly cannot predict whether implementors will require two 
> weeks, two months, or two quarters before they're able to submit results.
> 
> If you are responsible for an XQuery 3.0 implementation, please respond to 
> this message with your best estimate of how long from, say, mid-October 2012 
> it will be until you are able to submit test suite results.
> 
> Many thanks!
>   Jim
> 
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