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• Subject: After XQuery, are we done?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:10:06 -0400
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In http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/20/deviant.html, Edd Dumbill wrote:

> A reasonable question to ask, I think, even if the answer isn't quite
> as vital as it might once have been. XQuery is generally held to be
> the last great project of XML standardization, and any lessons to be
> drawn probably won't be applied in the field of XML itself.

Is XQuery the 'last great project of XML standardization'? Is there 
anything big on the horizon that still needs to be done?

Jonathan

FWIW, after XQuery 1.0, I do think we have plenty of work going forward 
on updates, grouping, full text, and the like in XQuery.

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