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• Subject: Re: WS-Addressing to W3C: Is the Tide Turning?
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:45:08 -0700
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Michael Kay wrote:

> > Hmmm.  My impression was that XQuery's delays were self-imposed,
> > they've taken on an insanely-large problem and determined
> > that they're
> > going to solve all of it, in absence of significant prior
> > art, what do
> > you expect? -Tim
> >
>
> No, I don't think that's a fair characterization at all. The size of the
> task is no larger than that tackled by XSLT 1.0, which was produced in 18
> months, and which involved at least as much innovation.

XSLT had DSSSL (part 2) as prior art, plus feedback from
DSSSL early adopters.   (DSSSL took *years* to get out of
committee...)


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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