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At 8:34 AM -0400 5/8/03, AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote: I would be interested to hear more detail of what, specifically, you think has gone wrong with XQuery / XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0. Why repeat it? I and others much more eloquent than me have shouted about this time and time again. It's obvious the working group is committed to going in the direction they're going, and is deaf to comments that challenge their fundamental assumptions, so the rest of us will have to blaze our own trails and compete rather than cooperate. May the best language win. The phrase "given up in disgust" doesn't really convey much detail of what the stumbling blocks are perceived to be and what solutions might be appropriate (and what solutions might be possible). Which XSLT 1.0 implementers have actually given up? I recall Daniel Veillard mentioning that libxml won't be moving to XSLT 2 any time soon. Jaxen is also staying with XPath 1.0. JDOM and XOM are likely to remain XPath 1.0 only. As far as I know only Saxon and Xalan have committed to XSLT 2. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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