Date: Nov. 6, 1998
Link: http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/xql.html
Source Author or Organization: Microsoft, Texcel, webMethods, Inc.

This is a position paper submitted for the W3C's Query Language Workshop.

Excerpted from "Abstract": "The XML Query Language (XQL) is a notation for addressing and filtering the elements and text of XML documents. XQL is a natural extension to the XSL pattern syntax. It provides a concise, understandable notation for pointing to specific elements and for searching for nodes with particular characteristics. This proposal was provided in September 1998 to the XSL Working Group (http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/1998/09/XQL-proposal.html) as input when considering extensions to the XSL pattern syntax."

"The companion document 'Querying and Transforming XML' describes the benefits of basing query and transformation languages for XML on the XSL transformation language and the extensions to the pattern language proposed here."