• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'Michael Champion'" <mc@x...>
• Subject: RE: WS-Addressing to W3C: Is the Tide Turning?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:08:17 +0100
• Cc: "'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> 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. The problem is a
social one: there are at least five individuals on the XQuery WG who could
have produced a perfectly usable spec two years ago if the other four
individuals had not been present.

Michael Kay

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