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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@s...> To: "Dare Obasanjo" <kpako@y...>; "Jeff Greif" <jgreif@a...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:57 AM Subject: Re: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still missing Updates > >For those of us that were not able to attend XML 2001, is there any material > >related to your presentation online such as PDFs, Powerpoint slides or similar > >material? I am primarily curious as to whether this update proposal is similar > >to the grammar on the Microsoftr XML demo site at > >http://131.107.228.20/grammar.html or more like the proposal from the UW > >database group at > >http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zives/research/updatingXML.pdf or something > >completely different. > > I can send a PowerPoint and some sample queries. I hope to start work with > other companies in January to produce an updated proposal. The Microsoft > implementaton and ours are *very* similar, which is not surprising, since > we worked with Microsoft, IBM, and Crossgain on the original proposal from > which our implementations are derived. I think that we can iron out the > differences and create one joint proposal. > I would greatly appreciate the Powerpoint and some sample queries. Perhaps putting it online would be a better choice than sending it to me directly so others can find it as well. > I would say that keeping pressure on the W3C to have updates in XQuery is > the right way to go. I think that the W3C is likely to be responsive, and > there are certainly vendors on the WG that want to make this happen. Send > feedback to the following mailing list: > > www-xml-query-comments@w... > > Remember that nobody is obligated to respond to anything on xml-dev, so our > comments list is the right place to post if you want to put pressure on us. > Ok, I will. However I hope someone actually reads them, from what I've seen from the most recent list archives http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/2001Dec/thread.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/2001Nov/thread.html most of the traffic is spam thus I wonder exactly how many WG members actually bother to check the messages on the list. -- THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #231 Mythical guardians will be instructed to ask visitors name, purpose of visit, and whether they have an appointment instead of ancient riddles. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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