• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>
• Subject: RE: Which Will Be Released First, the W3C's XQuery Spec or Longhorn?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:07:41 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>,"'Don Demsak'" <donxml@g...>
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> Partly.  But only a small part.  It's late because the WG heroically 
> decided they were going to SOLVE THE WHOLE QUERY PROBLEM DAMMIT, and 
> bit off an immense glob of schematype-laden semantics that could and 
> should have been left out. 

XQuery 1.0 is arguably a smaller language than XSLT 1.0: I don't think the
size of the language is the problem. It's true that getting the type system
to work took a lot of time and effort, but I think it would have taken much
less work if fewer people had been involved.

Michael Kay

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