I'm pleased to announce the first draft for the ZIP Module
specification is now available at:

http://expath.org/spec/zip

To quote from the spec:

'This specification defines a set of functions to read and write ZIP
files structure and actual content. It has been designed as a general
ZIP tool set for XPath, while it is expected to be particularly useful
with document package formats based on XML and ZIP, as for instance
[EPUB], [Open XML], and [OpenDocument].'

Though this is a collaborative work, the original design and
implementation for this module was by Florent Georges.

Florent's Saxon (Java) implementation is currently the only free
implementation of this specification that's available. A separate
implementation (using Saxon.NET) is also now incorporated in Qutoric's
commercial XPath and XSLT test/publishing tools.

Resources for the EXPath Zip Module can be found at:

http://www.expath.org/modules/zip/

All comments are welcome, please post them to the EXPath list:

http://groups.google.com/group/expath

Regards

Phil Fearon
http://qutoric.com