Release XSpec v3.4.3

Release XSpec v3.4.3

XSpec 3.4 adds more entry points to the support for XQS as the Schematron implementation. These are the highlights of XSpec v3.4:

Common to Languages Under Test

• After x:context or x:call, the x:variable and x:like elements can appear in any order and can be mixed. For example, the following sequence is valid: x:call, x:variable, x:like, x:variable, x:like
• Requires Java 17 or later. XSpec is tested with Java 17 and 21.
• Saxon 10 is no longer supported.
• XSpec is tested with XML Calabash v3.0.42.

XSLT

• The “XSpec for XSLT using XProc” transformation scenario for Oxygen uses XProc v3.

XQuery

• The “XSpec for XQuery using XProc” transformation scenario for Oxygen uses XProc v3.
• XSpec is tested with BaseX 12.2.

Schematron

• If your Schematron schema uses an XQuery-based queryBinding (e.g., queryBinding="xquery31"), there are now more ways to execute an XSpec test for that schema. In v3.3, you can run such a test only with XProc. In v3.4, you can also run the test with xspec.bat, xspec.sh, Ant, or the “Run XSpec Test” transformation scenario. A local installation of BaseX is required. To learn more, see Getting Started with XSpec and Schematron and Schematron implementation.
• The built-in XQS library is v1.1.5.

Many thanks to all the XSpec contributors who made this release possible! They are listed in the release notes.