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On Mon, 05 May 2003 12:29:39 -0700, Joe English <jenglish@f...> wrote: > > That was all the triage I needed. I won't be using these > technologies at all. "Public comments on this document and its open issues are welcome, in particular comments on Issue 510. Comments should be sent to the W3C XPath/XQuery mailing list, public-qt-comments@w... (archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/)." I think [wearing neither any W3C hat or my Day Job hat] that the W3C is not the same place it was a couple of years ago when working groups were basically trusted to do the right thing -- it is much harder to get a spec to Recommendation status, and there is a lot of Process specifying how informed dissent and constructive suggestions must be handled. To a certain extent a WG can still just say "we considered that idea and rejected it" but the original issue must be tracked all the way to the Director for final approval of the resolution. There's also the TAG to (at least potentially) address fundamental architectural issues. I would encourage people who have found XPath/XSLT 1.0 useful to carefully consider the changes they don't like, to make their opinions known on the comment lists (I assure you that the issues list editors don't take input from xml-dev!) and to offer suggestions for how to keep the "neat new stuff" without making the whole thing unusable. See the "conformance levels" in particular.
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