• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:40:54 -0400
• Cc: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>, xml-dev@l..., "'Thong (Tum) Nguyen'" <tum@v...>
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Tim Bray wrote:

> Bah.  If the WG had followed the advice they got three years ago to 
> just abandon all the type-based elaborations and the tight coupling to 
> XSD, then they would have shipped XQuery two years ago, and they would 
> have discovered that the market apparently cares more about update 
> facilities than it does about schema-driven querying, and they could be 
> building that right now. -Tim

Of course, when we got to that point, we might have also realized that 
type safety matters most when you are actually modifying the data.

Jonathan

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