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On Aug 19, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Tim Bray 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 Agreed, I was just using XQuery as a poster child for a long, long delayed W3C spec. In retrospect, it's not a good example of what the Powers that Be complain about at W3C. Also, that was written before I was enlightened by Mark Pilgrim's soon-to-be classic description of the universal dynamics of a standards working group: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs :-)
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