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Why do you need any other reasons? That's a good list you have there. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM If you don't change your direction, you may end up where you were headed. ________________________________ From: Michael Champion [mailto:michaelc.champion@g...] Sent: Fri 10/15/2004 7:48 AM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Why *is* XQuery taking so long? > I know it takes time to release quality specs, but I can't seem to > find any valid reason why XQuery is not out of the working draft > stage yet. This is a bit of a permathread, but I would like to solicit opinions from current or former XQuery participants or outside observers. The XQuery activity kicked off with a workshop in 1998 and the working group was chartered in 1999. 5 years later, no Recommendation in sight. Why did this happen? To kick things off, my recollection of the rough consensus from the last time this permathread surfaced was: - XQuery's requirements were far too ambitious and beyond the state of the art. It became an exercise in design by committee rather than standardizing actual experience. - XQuery has become rather tightly coupled with several other W3C specs, especially Schema, XPath, and XSLT. As is usually the case, this creates a bit of a hairball -- changing anything requires untangling everything. - There are a lot of conflicting intellectual and corporate agendas interacting, and coming to a mutually acceptable consensus is challenging at best. Are any of these in dispute, and what other reasons are there? ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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