Sedem rokov po uvedení prvej verzie v roku 1999 tu máme XSLT 2. World Wide Web Consortium o odporúčaní vydalo tlačovú správu začiatkom týždňa. Boli publikované desiatky dokumentov, spolupracovalo spolu veľké množstvo developerov a prebraných vyše tisíc otázok. Výsledkom je týchto osem dokumentov:
- XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language: An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
- XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0: Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents, including into XSL-FO for printing
- XML Path Language (Xpath) 2.0: Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators: The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations you can perform on XPath 2.0 data types
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM): Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources
- XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML, HTML or as text
- XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX): An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics: The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely for implementers